Alexithymia and somatic complaints in psychiatric out-patients

Taylor, Graeme J.; Parker, James D. A.; Bagby, R. Michael; Acklin, Marvin W.

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(92)90002-j

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“…Alternatively, it is possible that somatosensory amplification and somatic symptoms, which are common in alexithymia (De Berardis et al, 2007;Nakao et al, 2002Nakao et al, , 2007Taylor et al, 1992), led to the memory bias for illness words. That is, somatosensory amplification and somatic symptom prevalence may cause illness words to elicit enhanced cognitive processing due to personal relevance in alexithymia or they may elicit enhanced physiological arousal or amygdala responses in alexithymia (Kensinger & Schacter, 2006a;McGaugh, 2004).…”

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“…Alexithymia is associated with a high prevalence of functional somatic symptoms (Taylor, Parker, Bagby, & Acklin, 1992), which may lead to a memory bias for illness words due to the personal relevance of these stimuli. Individuals with chronic disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and somatoform disorder (SFD) experience prevalent and distressing somatic symptoms and they exhibit memory biases toward material related to frequent experiences associated with those disorders (Gibbs-Gallagher et al, 2001;Lim & Kim, 2005).…”

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Memory for emotionally provocative words in alexithymia: A role for stimulus relevance

Meltzer

Nielson

2010

Consciousness and Cognition

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Eighty-five high or low alexithymia participants viewed and rated arousing illness-related (''pain"), emotionally positive (''thrill"), negative (''hatred"), and neutral words (''horse"). Recall was assessed 45 min later.High alexithymia participants recalled significantly fewer negative emotion words but also more illness-related words than low alexithymia participants. The results suggest that personal relevance can shape cognitive processing of stimuli, even to enhance retention of a subclass of stimuli whose retention is generally impaired in alexithymia.

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Memory for emotionally provocative words in alexithymia: A role for stimulus relevance

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Nielson

2010

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…A total score also is determined for measuring inability in expressing emotions through summing up the tree subscales. Psychological properties of TorontoAlexithymiaScale-20 have been confirmed in different studies (Taylor et al, 1992 ; Tylor and begby, 2004).…”

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Efficiency of Training Emotional Intelligence on Reducing Alexithymia Syndrome in Third Grade Male High School Students

Amani

Goodarzi

Ahamadian

2013

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In this study, the efficiency of training emotional intelligence components on reducing Alexithymia syndrome has been investigated, first using TAS_20 test and emotional intelligent test 20 high school students were selected who have received the highest scores in Alexithymia test and the lowest scores in emotional intelligence test and they were provided with intelligence components within 8 sections. Comparing the results of both control and experimental groups showed that teaching emotional components leads to reduction of Alexithymia syndrome and is significant in the level F(1,17) = 293/86, P = 0/001).

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“…Kendini tanıma ve anlatmada zorluk yaşanmaktadır (32). Çeşitli çalışmalarda psikosomatik hastalığı olan hastalarda, somatik belirtileri ön planda olan psikiyatrik tanı almış hasta gruplarında ve somatik yakınmaları olan normal örneklemlerde aleksitimik özelliklerin daha sık görüldüğü bildirilmiştir (34,35,36). Depresyon, aleksitimi ile ilgili çalışmalarda sık olarak incelenen bir tanı grubu olup, aleksitiminin depresyonu olan hastalarda hastalığın şiddetini etkileyen bir faktör olduğu bildirilmiştir (33,34).…”

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Anki̇lozan Spondi̇li̇tli̇ Hastalarda Aleksi̇ti̇mi̇ Ve Benli̇k Saygisi

Solmaz¹,

Binbay²,

Çidem³

et al. 2014

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ABS TRACTOb jec ti ve: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), which has an unknown etiology, inflammatory disorder, characterized by inflammation of the spinal joints and adjacent structures. It has a negative effect on all aspects of a patient's life: Physically, psychologically and socially. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of AS on self-esteem and alexithymia. Met hods: In this study, 50 patients from the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation with the diagnosis of AS who were under treatment and follow-up and 50 healthy volunteers who matched for age and gender were taken. Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) , Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) were performed to both patients and control group. Psychiatric disorders were determined using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I). Re sults: Compared to the control group, the anxiety and depression scores were higher in the patient group and the alexithymic characteristics were significantly higher, selfesteem scores were significantly lower in the patient group (p<0.05). Conc lu si on: Like all the other inflammatory chronic diseases, depression and anxiety are commonly seen in AS patients. Alexithymia and self-esteem of these patients should be considered carefully. More studies are needed on this regard. (Arc hi ves of Neu ropsy chi atry 2013; 50: XX)

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Alexithymia and somatic complaints in psychiatric out-patients

Cited by 173 publications

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Memory for emotionally provocative words in alexithymia: A role for stimulus relevance

Memory for emotionally provocative words in alexithymia: A role for stimulus relevance

Efficiency of Training Emotional Intelligence on Reducing Alexithymia Syndrome in Third Grade Male High School Students

Anki̇lozan Spondi̇li̇tli̇ Hastalarda Aleksi̇ti̇mi̇ Ve Benli̇k Saygisi

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