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  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Mentalizing, the ability to understand mental states in oneself and others, is often impaired in mental disorders.
  • Emerging evidence suggests potential links between eating disorders (EDs) and difficulties with mentalization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the existence of distinct mentalizing subtypes within a sample of patients diagnosed with eating disorders.
  • To explore how these potential subtypes relate to emotion dysregulation, empathy, and overall mentalization capacity.

Main Methods:

  • Latent profile analysis was employed on data from 157 ED patients using measures of mentalization, emotion regulation, and empathy.
  • Clinician-rated scales assessed imbalances in mentalization dimensions, prementalizing modes, and attachment styles.

Main Results:

  • Four distinct mentalizing profiles emerged: affective/self/automatic imbalances, external imbalance, cognitive/self/automatic imbalances, and cognitive/other/automatic imbalances.
  • These profiles differed significantly in attachment styles, emotion dysregulation, empathy, interpersonal reactivity, and reflective functioning.
  • The identified profiles were heterogeneous regarding specific ED diagnoses.

Conclusions:

  • This research provides the first evidence of distinct mentalizing patterns in patients with eating disorders.
  • Classification based on mentalization impairments offers a nuanced understanding of EDs, independent of specific diagnostic categories.