1. eliciting situation
2. ambiguous social cues
3. hypersensitivity to social cues
4. exclusive usage of either controlled-explicit or automatic-implicit mentalization
5. self-other mental state confusion
6. imagined other-mind reaction tendency

Factors Inducing Hypermentalizing in BPD

1. Intrusive pseudomentalizing
2. Overactive form of pseudomentalising
3. Destructively inaccurate pseudomentalising

Subtypes of Hypermentalizing

Hypermentalizing/hypermentalization refers to the social-cognitive process of excessively inferring the mental states of others when there is insufficient concrete real-world evidence to support these inferences.

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Mentalization-based therapy theorizes that the BPD symptoms arise from rapid and frequent shifts from mentalistic to altered modes of mentalizing in functioning and perceiving the world, especially in interpersonal contexts. 

Theoretical Framework in Understanding BPD Based on MBT 

Sharp, C., & Vanwoerden, S. (2015). Hypermentalizing in borderline personality disorder: A model and data. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14(1), 33-45.

Hypermentalizing in BPD (Sharp & Vanwoerden, 2015)

1. Teleological Mode
2. Pretend Mode
3. Psychic Equivalence

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