The article provides a theoretical analysis of the concept of psychological mindedness. Several decades ago, foreign researchers discovered that one of the characteristics indicating the degree of access to the inner world of a person, the content of various emotions, how interested he is, how emotionally involved in creating an image of his "I" is called psychological mindedness. Thus, the assessment of these individual characteristics and the identification of features that contribute achieving the best results of psychological care is currently an important and urgent problem.

The definitions of the concept of psychological mindedness are considered, a model is proposed. Psychological mindedness is defined as the ability to reflect on psychological processes, relationships and meanings and is manifested in the emotional and intellectual dimensions of personality, degree of interest and ability to reflect. Abilities develop and limited by interest, and intellectual psychological thinking develops and limited by affective psychological mindedness.