Response: Behind the closed doors of mentalizing. A commentary on a??Another step closer to measuring the ghosts in the nursery: preliminary validation of the Trauma Reflective Functioning Scalea??

摘要

In this thought-provoking commentary on our findings regarding the dramatic deficits in mentalization specifically regarding past experiences of abuse and neglect in adults who otherwise demonstrate that they have the capacity to think about past relationships in terms of affects and mental states despite these histories, Schimmenti re-examines our findings from the perspective of dissociation and subtly raises the question of whether we adequately consider dissociative processes in the interpretation of our findings.