Verb

(dementaliz)

To remove from a mental context.

* 1998 , Charles Siewert, The Significance of Consciousness (page 19)

One knows other minds, only if one's third-person beliefs can be justified solely on the grounds that they provide the best explanation of the dementalized movements of others.

Verb

(mentaliz)

(usually, in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical

*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=Henry Theophilus Finck, title=Primitive Love and Love-Stories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It is interesting to observe, furthermore, that among the higher barbarians and civilized races, lust has become to a certain extent mentalized through hereditary memory and association. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Robert Sterling Yard, title=The Book of the National Parks, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=During this time also life evolved from its inferred beginnings in the late Archean to the complicated, finely developed, and in man's case highly mentalized and spiritualized organization of To-day. }}

(psychology) To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state

*{{quote-journal, 1999, date=November 26, Chris D. Frith & Uta Frith, Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis, Science citation

, passage=Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system. }}

*{{quote-journal, 1999, date=November 26, Chris D. Frith & Uta Frith, Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis, Science citation

, passage=Next Review Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis Chris D. Frith, 1 * Uta Frith 2 The ability to "mentalize ," that is to understand and manipulate other people's behavior in terms of their mental states, is a major ingredient in successful social interactions. }}