Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by "mentalizing"

Robyn Langdon; Jon Brock

doi:10.1017/S0140525X08004354

Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by "mentalizing"

Robyn Langdon^*, Jon Brock

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/opinion

20 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	274-275
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08004354
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2008

Access to Document

10.1017/S0140525X08004354

Cite this

@article{e2c86600874940f6ab766eb0e3fbeaa4,

title = "Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by {"}mentalizing{"}",

abstract = "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.",

author = "Robyn Langdon and Jon Brock",

year = "2008",

month = jun,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1017/S0140525X08004354",

language = "English",

volume = "31",

pages = "274--275",

journal = "Behavioral and Brain Sciences",

issn = "0140-525X",

publisher = "Cambridge University Press (CUP)",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing

T2 - It all depends upon what one means by "mentalizing"

AU - Langdon, Robyn

AU - Brock, Jon

PY - 2008/6/1

Y1 - 2008/6/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=46249098127&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X08004354

DO - 10.1017/S0140525X08004354

M3 - Comment/opinion

AN - SCOPUS:46249098127

SN - 0140-525X

VL - 31

SP - 274

EP - 275

JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

IS - 3

ER -

Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by "mentalizing"

Abstract

Access to Document

Other files and links

Cite this