[Alexithymic verbal behavior in patients with Crohn disease]

This study investigates the language of Morbus Crohn patients using a quantitative, objective linguistic method which was developed by M. v. Rad (1983). Significant results were: The language of Morbus Crohn patients is more generalized and includes not only fewer emotional terms but also fewer differential emotional terms than the language of neurotic patients. This result supports the hypotheses that the language of Morbus Crohn patients is alexithyme and that the Morbus Crohn disease belongs to psychosomatic disorders.