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All five scored high on the Reflective Functioning Scale, indicating a highly developed ability to mentalize. The present qualitative study, which focuses on the women\u2019s capacity to relate to and regulate affects, supports the finding that they are relatively skilled at reflecting on their own and others\u2019 thoughts and emotions. However, this highly developed capacity for mentalization is apparently not helping them regulate their emotions. This suggests that the capacity to mentalize may not be as closely related to the capacity to regulate affects as Fonagy et al. (2002) have proposed. Indeed, the concept of mentalization may be overinclusive and in need of stricter definition. Thus, it might be envisaged that while the ability to mentalize is closely related to the ability to put feelings into words (the opposite of alexithymia), an ability to mentalize may not necessarily entail a capacity to regulate affects. 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