Abstract
Mentalizing in schizophrenia is more than just solving theory of mind tasks
Highlights
When trying to make sense of these findings within emerging models of dysfunction, we were struck with five issues which remain to be addressed by future work
The loss of neurocognitive ability, stigma and the collapse of connections with others, preexisting trauma (Lysaker et al, 2011a) and poverty of early attachment have all been suggested separately to contribute to difficulties recognizing and reasoning about mental states but little work has considered whether social cognitive profiles in schizophrenia can be dissociated on the basis of the causes of and timing of when deficits emerged and not just the manifest nature of those deficits
A third concern is that test batteries such as those adopted by Scherzer et al neglect the reality that understanding mental states is of uttermost importance when thinking about personally relevant matters
Summary
When trying to make sense of these findings within emerging models of dysfunction, we were struck with five issues which remain to be addressed by future work. The first concerns the nature and onset the social cognitive deficits.
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