..., and abnormal illness behavior. The prevalence of DCPR diagnoses was calculated, and factors associated to such diagnoses were analyzed by logistic regression. Results: Alexithymia (64.47%), irritable mood (20.55%), and demoralization (15.60%) were the most prevalent psychosomatic syndromes, with demoralization...

... Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy Somatoform disorders Somatization Somatic symptom disorders Medically unexplained symptoms Functional somatic disorders Emotion Alexithymia Functional somatic disorders (FSDs) are a collection of conditions with distressing symptoms related...

... disorder, Guidi et al. [ 19 ] identified two clusters characterized by DCPR somatization (and alexithymia) and DCPR irritability (and DSM anxiety disorders), respectively. Notably, patients with DCPR AIB (25%) were equally represented in both clusters. Similarly, among medical patients diagnosed with DCPR...

... somatic symptoms due to psychological distress [ 4 ]. A factor potentially involved in somatization is alexithymia, a multifaceted construct characterized by deficits in the cognitive processing of emotions. Current evidence shows that alexithymia is likely to affect health in many psychiatric [ 5...

...John S. Ogrodniczuk; Anthony S. Joyce; Allan A. Abbass [email protected] Alexithymia has also been linked to a history of childhood maltreatment [ 4,7,8 ]. Caregivers' monitoring and responsiveness to a child's feelings and needs and the modelling of appropriate expression...

...A.M.M. De Vries; V. Forni; R. Voellinger; F. Stiefel Objective: To summarize the literature on alexithymia in cancer patients. Methods: The empirical literature published between 1972 and January 2010 was searched through MEDLINE, PSYINFO, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library. Key words were...

...Kirsi Honkalampi; Soili M. Lehto; Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen; Jukka Hintikka; Leo Niskanen; Minna Valkonen-Korhonen; Heimo Viinamäki Background: Altered immune responses are seen in depression, and recent data suggest that similar changes could also be observable in alexithymia. We examined whether...

...Silvana Grandi; Laura Sirri; Thomas N. Wise; Eliana Tossani; Giovanni A. Fava Background: Emotional inhibition has been an enduring concept in the psychosomatic literature explaining the onset and course of medical disorders. Currently the personality style of alexithymia is a focus...

... psychological mechanism in the formation of a spectrum of symptoms, and conceptualized alexithymia as a deficit in the cognitive processing of emotion such that stress-induced arousal could bypass the psyche and produce somatic symptoms. This article briefly reviews some of Nemiah’s conceptual ideas and relates...

...Alexander Heinzel; Ralf Schäfer; Hans-Wilhelm Müller; Andre Schieffer; Ariane Ingenhag; Simon B. Eickhoff; Georg Northoff; Matthias Franz; Hubertus Hautzel Background: One of the most prominent neurobiological models of alexithymia assumes an altered function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC...

...Masayo Kojima; Junichiro Hayano; Sadao Suzuki; Hachiro Seno; Hirotake Kasuga; Hiroshi Takahashi; Takanobu Toriyama; Hirohisa Kawahara; Toshiaki A. Furukawa Background: Depression increases the risk of mortality in hemodialysis patients. Alexithymia, a disorder of affect regulation, has also been...

...Cinzia Tulipani; Francesco Morelli; Maria Rosaria Spedicato; Evaristo Maiello; Orlando Todarello; Piero Porcelli Background: Alexithymia is likely to be involved in the pain experience of cancer patients, but the extent to which psychological interventions may modify both pain and alexithymia...

...Lee S. Mann; Thomas N. Wise; Laurel Shay The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) offers a reliable method to measure alexithymia, a personality construct describing individuals endorsing the inability to identify and report emotions, possessing a minimal fantasy life, utilizing an analytic cognitive...

...Isao Fukunishi Psychosomatic problems surrounding kidney transplantation were examined in 16 recipients. Either alexithymia or psychiatric disturbances were observed in 93.8% (15 cases) recipients. The incidence of psychiatric disturbances during pre-and posttransplant periods was 43.8% (7 cases...

... between 0.50 and 0.76 (median 0.72 and p value never below 0.005). Our results indicate that one of the main characteristics of low-back pain patients is the denial of aggression. Other main features of our patients were depressivity, passivity and oral or oedipal conflicts, alexithymia and lack...

...Isao Fukunishi; Satoru Saito; Susumu Ozaki The influence of psychodynamic aspects such as the defense mechanisms for conflict on secondary alexithymia in hemodialysis (HD) patients was examined among 35 HD patients and their family members. Although HD patients had quite strong conflicts due to HD...

...Graeme J. Taylor; Michael Bagby; James D.A. Parker Addressing certain problems with the compositional structure of the self-report Toronto Alexithymia Scale, this paper reports the development of a revised version of the scale as well as results from a preliminary series of studies evaluating its...

...Isao Fukunishi; Patricia Norris; Steven Fahrion; Cathy Baer; Robert Porter A comparison of alexithymia in American and Japanese dialysis patients was performed using the Beth Israel Hospital Questionnaire (BIQ) and the MMPI Alexithymia Scale (MMPI-AS) including structured interviews. No significant...

...M. Clerici; S. Albonetti; R. Papa; G. Penati; G. Invernizzi Many authors consider alexithymia a predisposing factor to psychosomatic and somatopsychic pathologies. In this study we investigated the presence of alexithymic characteristics in a group of 106 massive obese patients who requested...

...James D.A. Parker; Graeme J. Taylor; Michael Bagby The relationship between conjugate lateral eye movements (CLEMs) and alexithymia was investigated in a group of 60 (23 male and 37 female) right-handed university students. Subjects completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), the Schalling...