ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2016
Attachment, Neurobiology, and Mentalizing along the Psychosis Continuum.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 150 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mentalizing Across the Psychosis Continuum in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Pooled it
- Association Between Childhood Adversity and Functional Outcomes in People With Psychosis: A Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Migration and schizophrenia: meta-analysis and explanatory framework.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2019Pooled it
- Long-term effects of mentalization-based treatment for psychotic disorder: a 5-year follow-up of a multi-center, randomized-controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- The relationship between glutamate, dopamine, and cortical gray matter: A simultaneous PET-MR study.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Trial
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- Psychiatric diagnosis on the edge: is there evidence of benefit?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Network Model of Mentalization, Social Vulnerability, and the Self in Autism: A Comparison With Neurotypical Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Brain neuromarkers predict self- and other-related mentalizing across adult, clinical, and developmental samples.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mentalizing under stress and psychotic experiences: An experience sampling study.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
- Differential Associations of Adversity and Victimisation With Psychotic Experiences in Autistic Adolescents.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- A matter of psychic life and death: reappraising the death drive and its link to psychosis through the prism of the free energy principle.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Attachment in Schizophrenia: Its Associations with Theory of Mind, Childhood Trauma and Psychosocial Functioning.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- The role of trauma, attachment, dissociation, and alexithymia in pathways to negative symptoms in psychosis.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Childhood Trauma in People with Psychosis: Implications for Emotion Awareness and Regulation.Psychosis · 2025Article
- Schizotypal Traits, Psychopathology, and Reflective Functioning Impairments During Adolescence: A Bayesian Network Approach.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Reliability and validity of the Mentalization Questionnaire in a potentially depressed group of Chinese college students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Validation of the Mentalization Scale (MentS) in francophone control and clinical samples.PloS one · 2025Article
- [History of psychopathology in parents and caregivers].Atencion primaria · 2024Article
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Abstract
In this review article, we outline the evidence linking attachment adversity to psychosis, from the premorbid stages of the disorder to its clinical forms. To better understand the neurobiological mechanisms through which insecure attachment may contribute to psychosis, we identify at least five neurobiological pathways linking attachment to risk for developing psychosis. Besides its well documented influence on the hypothalamic-pituary-adrenal (HPA) axis, insecure attachment may also contribute to neurodevelopmental risk through the dopaminergic and oxytonergic systems, as well as bear influence on neuroinflammation and oxidative stress responses. We further consider the neuroscientific and behavioral studies that underpin mentalization as a suite of processes potentially moderating the risk to transition to psychotic disorders. In particular, mentalization may help the individual compensate for endophenotypical impairments in the integration of sensory and metacognitive information. We propose a model where embodied mentalization would lie at the core of a protective, resilience response mitigating the adverse and potentially pathological influence of the neurodevelopmental cascade of risk for psychosis.
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