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This series, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science, was created in order to promote dialogue between researchers and practitioners. Carla Sharp and Dickon Bevington’s book Mentalizing in Psychotherapy: A Guide for Practitioners embodies this goal in a thoroughly admirable way. Carla Sharp is an academic research psychologist (and clinician) and Dickon Bevington is a psychiatrist who works on the front lines with troubled adolescents for the National Health Service (and is the Medical Director of the Anna Freud Centre). This book is designed to be practical, and provides specific take-home messages along with boxes that summarize information and highlight clinical interactions in detail. The book is also a primer: it supposes no previous familiarity with mentalization or mentalization-based treatment. The authors explain the term mentalization and show how it is a transdiagnostic mechanism of change that can be applied to other modalities of treatment. Sharp and Bevington offer a comprehensive look at mentalization, both as contributing to salutogenesis and, in its absence, linked to psychopathology. They show us how to assess for mentalization, how to work on improving it, and also how it is part of supervision. This book is a remarkable achievement, both in leading the mentalization paradigm forward, as Peter Fonagy argues in his Foreword, and in conveying in clear language to the novice or anyone who is vaguely familiar with mentalization what the construct is and why it is such a compelling area of research and treatment.