Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by “mentalizing”
June 28th, 2008 | by admin |Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by \”mentalizing\”
By conceiving of autism and psychosis as diametrically opposite phenotypes of underactive and overactive mentalizing, respectively, Crespi & Badcock (C&B) commit themselves to a continuum view of intercorrelated mentalizing functions. This view fails to acknowledge dissociations between mentalizing functions and that psychotic people show a mixture of both hypo- and hyper-mentalizing.
Langdon R, Brock J.
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia. rlangdon@maccs.mq.edu.au http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.htm?memberID=60 jbrock@maccs.mq.edu.au http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.htm?memberID=203.