... 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...

... for Psychosomatic Research Psychosomatic medicine Somatization Illness behavior Demoralization Depression Alexithymia Irritable mood In any field of medicine and clinical psychology, including psychosomatic medicine, the effectiveness of the diagnostic process increases to the extent that it achieves...

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...John S. Ogrodniczuk; Anthony S. Joyce; Allan A. Abbass john.ogrodniczuk@ubc.ca 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...

...F. Anagnostopoulos; Gr. Vaslamatzis; M. Markidis; Kl. Katsouyanni; St. Vassilaros; C. Stefanis Two measures of personality characteristics, the Personality Deviance Scale and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, were administered to a total sample of 448 women and a subsample of 100 women, respectively...

...Howard Berenbaum The goal of this study was to further our understanding of the relationship between the ability to identify one’s emotions and the kinds of emotion arousing experiences that people prefer. One hundred and eighty-six undergraduate students completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale...

... then administered the 20-item version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale; the 33rd and 66th percentiles were used to categorize subjects into high, moderate, and low alexithymia groups. Results showed that the high alexithymia group was significantly less able to recognize facial expressions of emotions than the low...

...Roberto Infrasca Background: The association between alexithymia and higher sympathetic vegetative reactivity (emotional arousal) is still controversial. Methods: The objective of this study was to examine differences in the electrodermic reactivity (neurovegetative arousal) of alexithymic subjects...

...O. Todarello; A. Casamassima; S. Daniele; M. Marinaccio; F. Fanciullo; L. Valentino; N. Tedesco; S. Wiesel; G. Simone; L. Marinaccio Background: In a previous study [Psychother Psychosom 1994;61:199-204] we investigated the relationship between alexithymia, carcinogenesis and immunity in a group...

...G.W.B. Näring; C.P.F. van der Staak While the ability to estimate heart rate in a laboratory setting appears to be related to anxiety and alexithymia, it is still unclear how the ability to estimate blood pressure is related to these psychological measures. The perception of heart rate and blood...

... to in the content or advertisements. Behçet’s disease Life-events Alexithymia Bipolar disorder Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Clinical Note Psychother Psychosom 1996;65:112-114 Franco Orsucci Psychosomatic Medicine Unit SDSM/RMB, Rome and Institute of Psychiatry, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy...

...Isao Fukunishi; Takashi Hosaka; Takayuki Aoki; Takaharu Azekawa; Arimitsu Ota; Hitoshi Miyaoka Background: The diagnostic criteria for alexithymia (DCA) was proposed by Fava et al. in 1995. The purpose of this study was to examine the criterion-related validity of the DCA in a general hospital...

...Michael Bach; Doris Bach Background: The clinical validity of the newly developed 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) with regard to the concept of somatization remains to be further established. This study attempts to determine the relationship between alexithymia and measures...