ArticleResearch in psychotherapy (Milano)2020
A meta-analytic study examining the relationship between alexithymia and dissociation in psychiatric and nonclinical populations.
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- Cognitive Distortions and Alexithymia: A Cross-Sectional Study of Their Association.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Depersonalization, Emotion Embodiment, and Alexithymia in the General Population.Psychopathology · 2026Article
- Alexithymia in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and dissociative disorders: two meta-analytic reviews.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Emotion dysregulation and dissociation mediate the association between alexithymia and depressive symptoms in individuals with alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Article
- Maladaptive personality and the efficiency of response-focused emotion regulation strategies: a study on suppression and acceptance.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Alexithymia and problematic sexual behaviour: the mediation of dissociative patterns.Health psychology report · 2025Article
- Individual Differences in Bodily Self-Consciousness and Its Neural Basis.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Explanatory hypotheses of the ecology of new clinical presentations of Dissociative Identity Disorders in youth.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- When and for whom do psychodynamic therapists use guided imagery? Explicating practitioners' tacit knowledge.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Alexithymia and dissociation have been consistently linked in the literature, particularly in psychiatric populations. Both arise from a disconnection between conscious aspects of self-experiences and perceptions at both the mental self and bodily levels. This results in difficulty integrating thoughts, feelings and experiences into consciousness and memory, negatively impacting emotion awareness/regulation and reflective functioning. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the strength of the relationship between alexithymia and dissociation in both clinical and non-clinical populations. Studies using two common measures of these constructs were included (
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