Abstract
This study assessed alexithymia in six patients with complete cerebral commissurotomy, two patients with partial commissurotomy, and eight matched control subjects. Comparisons were based on content-analytic measures of the subjects' spoken and written responses to a film that symbolically represented death and loss. The commissurotomized patients were more alexithymic on all four lexical-level variables, all six sentential-level variables, and all six global-level variables. Discriminant function analysis found a linear combination of four variables that effectively discriminated groups of fully commissurotomized, partially commissurotomized, and normal control subjects and correctly classified 15 of the 16 subjects.
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- 1986
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 312-316
- Citations
- 103
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Warren D. TenHouten,
Klaus D. Hoppe,
Joseph E. Bogen
et al.
(1986).
Alexithymia: an experimental study of cerebral commissurotomy patients and normal control subjects.
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 143
(3)
, 312-316.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.3.312
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- 10.1176/ajp.143.3.312