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There is empirical support for the association between parental mentalizing, measured as a verbal capacity, and infant attachment. However, verbal measures of parental mentalizing are limited in understanding the impact of parental mentalizing from the infant’s point of view, on caregiving behavior, and the infant’s contribution to this mutual process in the nonverbal parent-infant interaction. This literature review aims to examine the empirical support for an association between parental mentalizing as a nonverbal capacity and infant attachment. Only two published studies were identified, both publications used Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM) as a measure of nonverbal parental mentalizing and the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) to classify attachment. The results support a hypothesis that nonverbal parental mentalizing measured by PEM predicts infant attachment. Further research on nonverbal parental mentalizing and infant attachment is needed. Implications and potential benefits of including nonverbal aspects of parental mentalizing in existing methods in the field of infant mental health need to be explored.