Alexithymia – Imagination – Creativity

Alexithymia and script‐driven emotional imagery in healthy female subjects: no support for deficiencies in imagination

“…Thereby high alexithymics reacted as intensely as low alexithymics. In line with our findings, Czernecka and Szymura (2008) did not find any references for differences in the imagination ability between high and low alexithymics using one specific test to examine the subjective imagination ability (Mental Rotation Test). The authors assumed that the imagination dysfunction is probably limited only to personal, emotion‐evoking, real‐life images.…”

“…In another study the imagination ability was operationalized via the reaction time in a mental rotation test, in which both neutral (Hexagram) and affective-loaded (pictures of facial expression) stimuli were used. In both conditions (cognitive vs. affective-loaded) there was no difference in the imagination ability between high and low alexithymic subjects (Czernecka & Szymura, 2008). The authors argued that the mental rotation task may rather capture basic cognitive functions than difficulties in imagination.…”

“…According to our knowledge, up to now, no physiological parameters, which objectified the imagination ability during the script‐driven imagery task in alexithymic individuals, were examined. Moreover, available empirical research on the self‐assessment of imagination ability only addressed either the visual sensory modality (VVIQ; Vianna et al ., 2009) or the cognitive task performance (Czernecka & Szymura, 2008) or the self‐assessed imagination ability was evaluated by means of a single item (Friedlander et al ., 1997). Against the background of these methodological shortcomings, the aim of the present study was to assess the association between alexithymia and emotional imagination ability in healthy subjects on the basis of differentiated subjective assessments of imagination ability and an objective physiological parameter indicating emotional arousal during imagination.…”

Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking?

“…Of particular interest among creativity researchers have been traits associated with psychological adjustment (see Glazer, 2009). However, the correlation between adjustment-related traits such as psychoticism (Rushton, 1990), schizotypy (O'Reilly, Dunbar, & Bentall, 2001), hypomania (Furnham, Batey, Anand, & Manfield, 2008), alexithymia (Czernecka & Szymura, 2008), and general creativity have ranged from modest to none. On the other hand, researchers have had more success linking broad personality dispositions from the Five Factor model to creativity.…”

Creativity in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

“…Yani yaratıcılığa dair uygulamalar, kişilerde yalnızca içgörü ve katarsis sağlamakla kalmaz aynı zamanda yaşamda daha uyumlu ve aktif bir şekilde yer almalarını da sağlamaktadır. [35][36][37][38] Ruh sağlığı ve hastalıkları alanında bilgi tabanlı, işbirlik-çi, bütüncül, hasta ve iyileşme odaklı bakım gerekmektedir. Klinik süpervizyon, olumlu risk alma ve sanat terapistlerinin desteği, alana güç vermektedir.…”