Aberrant salience and fatigue as mediators between early life experiences and ideas of reference

Interpersonal Violence and Psychotic-Like Experiences: The Mediation of Ideas of Reference, Childhood Memories, and Dissociation

“…The emotional impact or psychobiological repercussions associated with the type of situation experienced means changes in the person and in his/her relations with others, probably favoring a state of continual stress. Evaluation of relations with others, sometimes, the same people who have led to these situations, and adoption of coping strategies to handle them, must exert an important role, as corroborated by the relationship observed between the set of situations and childhood memories (ELES) [12].…”

“…Memories of the relationship with parents (ELES) [12] were also included in this set, although their later relationship was mainly with absorption, and significantly, with IRs. Some studies following up on samples of patients have attributed less importance to the memories of such events, and more to the mediating role of activating, compared to dissociative, states [23].…”

“…Summarizing, and taking the presence of interpersonal violence as a starting point, this study poses the possibility that this set of situations favors the appearance of a more automatic defensive cognitive process such as IR, as an expression of self-disturbances [19,24]. At the same time, such violence could activate memories of the relationship with one's parents, causing submission, devaluation, or defense for coping with the threat [12]. These mediator variables would also occur sequentially with other mediator variables, such as absorption and depersonalization, as confirmed in analyses with these dissociative variables [15,25].…”

“…The continuity and accumulation of events involving violence might intensify psychotic-like experiences (PLE) or psychotic symptoms, if already present [11]. They also activate memories of such situations and responses of submission, devaluation or defense from threat [12]. One of the relationships well-established in research is between traumatic events and dissociation.…”