Alexithymia, social detachment and cognitive processing.
Using lexical content analysis (linguistic inquiry and word count), the hypotheses that social detachment and impaired cognitive processing are typical for alexithymia are investigated. Based on clinical interviews with 32 outpatients (mixed diagnoses), we found support for the hypotheses for the externally oriented thinking facet of alexithymia only.
Vanheule
Stijn
S
Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Stijn.Vanheule@UGent.be
Meganck
Reitske
R
Desmet
Mattias
M
D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics