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  • Cognitive Science

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  • Personality disorders are increasingly understood as dysfunctions in higher-order cognition.
  • Concepts like mentalizing, metacognition, and social cognition highlight deficits in advanced mental processing.

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  • To synthesize findings on higher-order cognitive deficits in personality disorders.
  • To propose mentalizing as an umbrella term for these cognitive functions.
  • To explore the interplay of adversity, attachment, and mentalizing in personality disorder etiology.

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  • Review and commentary on papers within a special issue.
  • Synthesis of evidence regarding higher-order cognition and personality disorders.
  • Conceptual integration of mentalizing, adversity, and attachment.

Main Results:

  • Higher-order mental processing is central to personality function.
  • Mentalizing, encompassing metacognition and social cognition, is a key factor.
  • Adversity, attachment, and mentalizing interact to produce personality disorder symptoms, including borderline personality disorder.

Conclusions:

  • Mentalizing dysfunction is a core feature of personality disorders.
  • The interaction between life adversity, attachment styles, and mentalizing capacity is crucial for understanding personality disorder development.
  • Further research is recommended to explore these complex interactions.