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  • Mental Health

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  • Attachment difficulties, high arousal, and poor affect control impair mentalizing capacity.
  • Impaired mentalizing can lead to the intergenerational transmission of violent behaviors.
  • Physical violence may occur when mentalizing capacity is temporarily lost.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a mentalization-based framework for understanding and managing family violence.
  • To explore the role of mentalizing in preventing the transmission of violent patterns.
  • To discuss therapeutic implications for families experiencing violence.

Main Methods:

  • Review of evidence linking attachment, arousal, affect control, and mentalizing.
  • Conceptual analysis of the relationship between mentalizing and family violence.
  • Discussion of therapeutic interventions based on mentalization.

Main Results:

  • Loss of mentalizing capacity is associated with family violence.
  • Mentalizing within family attachment relationships fosters epistemic trust.
  • Epistemic trust generated through mentalizing reduces the likelihood of family violence.

Conclusions:

  • Mentalization-based approaches offer a framework for understanding and intervening in family violence.
  • Enhancing mentalizing capacity within families is key to preventing violence.
  • Therapeutic interventions should focus on improving mentalizing to foster secure attachment and reduce violence.