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  • Title: Alexithymia, psychosomatosis, and psychosis.
    Author: McDougall J.
    Journal: Int J Psychoanal Psychother; ; 9():379-88. PubMed ID: 7152820.
    Abstract:
    A discussion of "Alexithymia and the Effectiveness of Psychoanalytic Treatment" by Henry Krystal, M.D. Following a critical appraisal of Krystal's work on alexithymia, the author proposes that alexithymic symptoms may also reveal themselves to be a massive defense against psychotic anxieties. In both psychotic and alexithymic-psychosomatic states there is an attack on mental functioning and perception. However, while the psychotic creates a neo-reality to protect himself from psychic pain, the grave alexithymic drains external reality and relationships of their meaning, leaving a devitalized relationship of a "pseudo-normal" kind with the world.
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