Research Explorer

Project

Alexithymia interpersonal functioning and depression: a study in a psychiatric population
Code
01J01908
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 October 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • Clinical and counseling psychology
    • General psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Nursing
    • Other paramedical sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
language alexithymia word use
 
Project description

By means of content analysis of interview narratives and of narratives elicited by free response tasks (TAT, EMT) and by means of self-report questionnaires we study whether alexithymia in psychiatric patiënts is connected to a specific pattern of interpsonal functioning. Alexithymia is assessed in amultimethod way and we check for alternative explanations.