Déficit en théorie de l'esprit dans la schizophrénie: Relecture clinique et revue des arguments expérimentaux

The Cognitive Basis of Disorganization Symptomatology in Schizophrenia and Its Clinical Correlates: Toward a Pathogenetic Approach to Disorganization

“…The second deficit corresponds to an inability to attribute mental states to others; to infer other people's intentions, desires, and beliefs; and to respect the rules involved in communication. Innovative research has suggested that a difficulty in understanding other people's mental states could induce signs such as poor, incoherent, or inappropriate speech (Frith 1992(Frith , 1994Sarfati 2000).…”

“…To farther investigate the functional character of the contextual deficit, we conducted a series of experiments into the effect of the introduction of verbal material on performance. To do this, we asked the patients to respond immediately by designating response pictures in some cases and response sentences in others (Sarfati et al 1999, 2000). This variant was intended to demonstrate that verbal material is able to force the tested subjects to perform a more thorough processing of the relevant contextual elements when responding to a theory of mind task and that it improves performance.…”