Is alexithymia a non-neurotic personality dimension? A response to Rubino, Grasso, Sonnino & Pezzarossa
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G J Taylor1, R M Bagby, J D Parker
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The British Journal of Medical Psychology
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Rubino, Grasso, Sonnino & Pezzarossa (1991) reported a significantly higher level of alexithymia in neurotic and delusional patients than in psychosomatic patients, and concluded that alexithymia is not a non-neurotic personality dimension. Further empirical data are cited, however, that contradict this conclusion and support the view that alexithymia is a type of affect deficit.