The Independent Contributions of Emotion Dysregulation and Hypermentalization to the “Double Dissociation” of Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Female Adolescent Inpatients With BPD

Harari, Shamay-Tsoory, Ravid, and Levkovitz (2010) demonstrated a "double dissociation" in empathy in borderline personality disorder (BPD), such that BPD patients had higher affective than cognitive empathy, whereas controls exhibited the opposite pattern. Two processes that may relate to this dissociation are emotion dysregulation (ER) and hypermentalization. However, these interrelated processes have not been studied concomitantly, and the...