F1. MENTALIZATION MEDIATES THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CHILDHOOD INTERPERSONAL TRAUMAS AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF SCHIZOID SCHIZOTYPAL AND PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDERS

摘要

Exposure to childhood interpersonal traumas is a significant risk factor for the emergence of schizoid, schizotypal and paranoid personality disorders (Bierer et al., 2003; Waxman et al., 2014). However, most children exposed to interpersonal traumas do not present such disorders during adulthood and the developmental mechanisms of risk remain to be clarified. The concept of mentalization may contribute to our understanding of these developmental trajectories considering that (1) mentalization is a definite protective factor in the context of trauma (Berthelot et al., 2014), (2) mentalization would play a key role in the emergence or exacerbation of psychosis and psychotic-related disorders (Debanné & Toffel, 2019), and that (3) mentalization was shown to mediate the association between childhood trauma and negative symptoms in psychotic patients (Weijers et al., 2018).