Patients with personality disorders need targeted treatments which are able to deal with the
specific aspects of the core pathology and to tackle the challenges they present to the …

Alexithymia is characterized by impairment of an individual's ability to experience, identify,
and express emotions, and is associated with impaired emotional intelligence and an …

Patients suffering from chronic pain such as fibromyalgia (FM) not only experience change
in their physical bodies but also in their embodiment. There are two forms of disturbed body …

Emotions, cognitions, and defenses are considered as fundamental psychological
processes. These complex and multidimensional variables have intertwined relationships …

Alexithymia has been defined as a personality construct that involves difficulties identifying
and describing feelings, as well as an externally oriented thinking style and impoverished …

Patients with alexithymia are a challenge to engage in treatment and require a diverse
range of interventions to realize benefit. A partial hospitalization treatment program, offering …

Rasch measurement analysis and theory was used to critically examine data from the
recently developed Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) for both mothers …

Alexithymia is an emotion-related construct involving difficulties identifying, describing, and
processing emotion, which hinder the capacity to provide empathy, and the development of …

The present paper discusses the problem of examining ability to mentalize in the psychiatric
and psychotherapeutic diagnosis process. It is proved by the research results indicating …

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Zwischen Psychoanalyse und empirischer Wissenschaft besteht seit
jeher ein Spannungsverhältnis, was in grundlegend verschiedenen epistemologischen …