ReviewCurrent rheumatology reports2016
Alexithymia in Chronic Pain Disorders.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.
- Silent Struggles Within: Alexithymia Unveiled in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility · 2024Pooled it
- Psychosocial factors associated with pain and health-related quality of life in Endometriosis: A systematic review.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
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- Emotion regulation in patients with somatic symptom and related disorders: A systematic review.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- Psychological Aspects of Rheumatic Diseases: Psychorheumatology in Clinical Practice.Rheumatology and therapy · 2026Review
- Family History of Chronic Pain: What Impact Does It Have on Current Clinical Status? Results From an Italian Study.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- The role of interoception in alexithymia: a multidimensional analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Psychometric and Molecular Profiling to Predict Outcomes of Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Kinesiophobia and alexithymia in knee osteoarthritis: association with radiological severity.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Clinical applications of the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scale-Self-Report-30: a systematic review of the first five years.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2025Article
- Towards a better definition of nociplastic pain conditions: a psychological grounded study on fibromyalgia, chronic headache and vulvodynia.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- The Association Between Alexithymia, Interoception, and Pain in Pediatric Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.Integrative medicine reports · 2025Review
- Deciphering Pain Experience in Adult Patients With Sickle Cell Disease: A Network Analysis of Pain-Related Factors in a Single French Sickle Cell Centre.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- Alexithymia Increases the Headache Pain Index in Women with Migraine: Preliminary Results.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The mediating role of anxiety and depression in the relationship between alexithymia, somatosensory amplification, and functional impairment in fibromyalgia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Putting pain into words: the psalms of lament as an aid for the alexithymic.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychological Treatments for Alexithymia: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Alexithymia, intolerance to uncertainty and mental health difficulties in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Alexithymia Increases Pericranial and Cervical Muscle Tenderness in Women with Migraine.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- An important contributing factor in dry eye disease: somatization.International ophthalmology · 2024Observational
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Abstract
This review proposes a critical discussion of the recent studies investigating the presence of alexithymia in patients suffering from different chronic pain (CP) conditions. The term CP refers to pain that persists or progresses over time, while alexithymia is an affective dysregulation, largely observed in psychosomatic diseases. Overall, the examined studies showed a high prevalence of alexithymia, especially difficulties in identifying feelings, in all the different CP conditions considered. However, the association between alexithymia and pain intensity was not always clear and in some studies this relationship appeared to be mediated by negative effect, especially depression. The role of alexithymia in CP should be clarified by future studies, paying particular attention to two aspects: the use of additional measures, in addition to the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, to assess alexithymia, and the analysis of the potential differences in the evolution of different CP conditions with reference to the presence or absence of alexithymia.
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