Mentalization, attachment, and subjective identity

Guerini, Rossella; Marraffa, Massimo; Paloscia, Claudio

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01022

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“…The achievement of mentalizing capacity enables the establishment of a sense of identity [ 119 ]. Moreover, mentalizing and identity disturbances are intertwined in personality disordered patients [ 120 ]. Finally, exploring identity demands thinking in terms of mental states regarding oneself and, according to the object relations model underlying the IPO-83 [ 121 ], regarding the others.…”

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The Spanish version of the reflective functioning questionnaire: Validity data in the general population and individuals with personality disorders

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Introduction Mentalization or reflective functioning (RF) is the capacity to interpret oneself or the others in terms of internal mental states. Its failures have been linked to several mental disorders and interventions improving RF have a therapeutic effect. Mentalizing capacity of the parents influences the children’s attachment. The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8) is a widely used tool for the assessment of RF. No instrument is available to assess general RF in Spanish-speaking samples. The aim of this study is to develop a Spanish version of the RFQ-8 and to evaluate its reliability and validity in the general population and in individuals with personality disorders. Methods 602 non-clinical and 41 personality disordered participants completed a Spanish translation of the RFQ and a battery of self-reported questionnaires assessing several RF related constructs (alexithymia, perspective taking, identity diffusion and mindfulness), psychopathology (general and specific) and interpersonal problems. Temporal stability was tested in a non-clinical sub-sample of 113 participants. Results Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses suggested a one-factor structure in the Spanish version of the RFQ-8. RFQ-8 understood as a single scale was tested, with low scorings reflecting genuine mentalizing, and high scorings uncertainty. The questionnaire showed good internal consistence in both samples and moderate temporal stability in non-clinical sample. RFQ correlated significantly with identity diffusion, alexithymia, and general psychopathology in both samples; and with mindfulness, perspective taking, and interpersonal problems in clinical sample. Mean values of the scale were significantly higher in the clinical group. Discussion This study provides evidence that the Spanish version of the RFQ-8, understood as a single scale, has an adequate reliability and validity assessing failures in reflective functioning (i.e., hypomentalization) in general population and personality disorders.

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“…Moreover, through the introspection and the self-knowledge, “a subject can construct itself as psychologically self-conscious (and not only as physically self-conscious) in an interplay of meta-representational abilities, autobiographical memory, and socio-communicative capacities” (Guerini et al, 2015 ). Conversely, the neurobiological outcome of the antidepressant therapy showed a decrease of the right paracingulate activity, which can be explained by the fact that this kind of treatment is not focused on the elaboration of internal mental states.…”

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Neural Correlates of Outcome of the Psychotherapy Compared to Antidepressant Therapy in Anxiety and Depression Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

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The most prevalent mental disorders, anxiety and depression, are commonly associated with structural and functional changes in the fronto-limbic brain areas. The clinical trials investigating patients with affective disorders showed different outcome to different treatments such as psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy. It is, however, still unexplored how these interventions approach affect the functional brain. This meta-analysis aims to compare the effects of psychotherapy compared to antidepressant therapy on functional brain activity in anxiety and depression disorders. Twenty-one samples with psychotherapy and seventeen samples with antidepressant therapy were included. The main finding showed an inverse effect of the two treatments on the right paracingulate activity. The patients undergoing psychotherapy showed an increase in the right paracingulate activity while pharmacological treatment led to a decrease of activation of this area. This finding seems to support the recent studies that hypothesize how psychotherapy, through the self-knowledge and the meaning processing, involves a top-down emotional regulation.

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“…Notably, the construct of mentalization is well established in numerous fields. It is the subject of extensive research in clinical and cognitive psychology (Guerini et al, 2015), neuroscience (Schnell et al, 2011), education and learning (Haake et al, 2015), and now affective computing (Varga et al, 2018). Not surprisingly, mentalization also has neurological correlates (Ferrari & Coude, 2018).…”

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Cognitive Empathy

Bryant¹

2021

Augmented Humanity

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Human beings try to interpret and read other minds. This is the process of cognitive empathizing, which can be implicit and intuitive, or explicit and deliberate. The process also qualifies as a form of complex problem-solving, where the focal problem is another person’s mental states. Hence, cognitive empathizing by digitally augmented agents will exhibit the characteristics discussed in the preceding chapter, regarding digitalized problem-solving. It follows, therefore, that augmented agents might combine human myopia and bias, with overly farsighted, artificial sampling and search of other minds. Augmented agents will then misread other minds, often viewing them as unrealistic, irrational, or deviant. This chapter examines the origins and implications of these effects, especially for interpersonal trust and cooperation.

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Mentalization, attachment, and subjective identity

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

The Spanish version of the reflective functioning questionnaire: Validity data in the general population and individuals with personality disorders

The Spanish version of the reflective functioning questionnaire: Validity data in the general population and individuals with personality disorders

Neural Correlates of Outcome of the Psychotherapy Compared to Antidepressant Therapy in Anxiety and Depression Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

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