Alexithymic Characteristics and Somatic Illness
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 34 (4) , 261-266
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000287467
Abstract
As part of a study on stress, the author investigated 183 women, the majority of whom were dental patients. A highly significant correlation between a high score of alexithymic characteristics and many reported somatic diseases was found in the subjects who were 40 years of age or older.Keywords
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