FROM AUTISM TO BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER. THEORY OF MIND AND REPRESENTATION

Abstract
There is a growing interest in applying "theory of mind" as a tool to understand symptom-formation processes in varying disorders. Theory of mind is usually conceived as a metarrepresentation. The text makes clear the systematically ambiguous use of the concept "representation" and the implications of its epistemological model, which includes both analytic philosophy of language and computational theory of mind. It focuses on the inability of the model to deal with contextual or subsignificant information, deemed relevant to symptom recognition, and on its main consequence affecting psychiatric semiology: grouping together symptoms with partial resemblances. This is to explain the inconsistencies and contradictions of empirical studies regarding ToM.

Key words
theory of mind, representation, context, computational theory of mind

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