Alexithymia and the split brain. III. Global-level content analysis of fantasy and symbolization.
8 commissurotomy patients and 8 precision-matched normal control subjects were shown a 3-min videotaped film about death. Content analysis of the subjects' spoken and written responses to this film was carried out on the global, interpretive level, for 2 fantasy and 4 symbolization variables. Commissurotomy patients were found to be significantly more alexithymic than normal controls for 3 of the symbolization variables, for factor-analytic measures of fantasy and symbolization, and for an over-all measure of alexithymia derived from these 2 factors and lexical-level and sentential-level measures of alexithymia.
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Hoppe
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D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery*; D003643:Death; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011386:Projective Techniques; D013561:Symbolism