Alexithymia in Chronic Bronchitis/Emphysema Patients
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 41 (1) , 25-28
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000287781
Abstract
Affective, somatic and collateral experiences of alexithymic and nonalexithymic patients to their chronic bronchitis/emphysema was analyzed in reference to 11 symptom categories of the Bronchitis/Emphysema Symptom Checklist. Unlike alexithymic asthmatics who tend to minimize their self-reports of physical and emotional difficulties during acute illness episodes, chronic bronchitis/emphysema alexithymics do not differ from nonalexithymics in their self-reports of physical and emotional difficulties.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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