Алекситимия и депресивност при психосоматично болни
Alexithymia and depression in psychosomatic patients

Summary/Abstract: The construct alexithymia is introduced for the first time by Sifneos and Nemiah during the 70’s of the XX-th century. Literally translated, it means “no words for feelings”, and these deficits have a cognitive and an affective effect. Alexithymia is closed by meaning to “psychosomatic functioning”, related to the French school of psychoanalysis and more specific with the Paris institute of psychosomatics. Thus, for the target group in the current research is build up by 62 patients, diagnosed with classic psychosomatic diseases, described by Franz Alexander. The control group numbers 66 subjects without any diagnose of psychosomatic disease. The test-battery includes the self-assessment questionnaire of alexithymia TAS 20 and the depressive scale by Aaron Beck. The results show statistically significant higher levels of alexithimia and higher levels of depressivity in the group of psychosomatic patients compared to the healthy controls. alexithymia, depressivity, psychosomatics, somatization, psychoanalysis

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