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To contextualize Elliot Jurist's Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy, it seems useful to situate it in relation to the series of contributions by Fonagy and Target (1996, 2000, 2007; Target and Fonagy 1996; Bateman and Fonagy 2004) which, under the heading “playing with reality,” created and began to elaborate the concept of mentalization. This work received an early major exposition in Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self (Fonagy et al. 2002). That work might be seen as having introduced a paradigm shift, in Thomas Kuhn's phrase, in psychoanalytic thinking about development, psychic structure, and psychopathology. While not radically incommensurable with earlier psychoanalytic theories, mentalization theory offered a substantial reorganization and extension of many earlier part theories. To apply Kuhn's notions about scientific ideas further, the current volume might be seen as an aspect of “normal science,” an essential process in the further development of and integrative working out of advances implicit in the revolutionary notions constituting the paradigm shift. With notable concision Jurist carries the concept of mentalization into our understanding of emotion, and specifically into an elaboration of the concept of mentalized affectivity. In doing so, throughout this volume he brings together empirical research in psychology (including his own Mentalized Affectivity Scale as an appendix) and neuroscience with psychotherapeutic clinical data, material from autobiographical writings (including memoirs by Sarah Silverman, Tracey Smith, Ingmar Bergman, and Oliver Sacks), and contemporary developments in a number psychoanalytic schools of thought. Interestingly, while he acknowledges that mentalization concepts owe a debt to psychoanalytic