Key Texts

Books

Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in medical and psychiatric illness by Taylor, Bagby and Parker.

Integration and Self-Healing: Affect, trauma, alexithymia. By Henry Krystal, with a chapter by John Krystal.

Short-Term Psychotherapy and Emotional Crisis by Peter E. Sifneos. Review.

Articles

Peter E. Sifneos, (1973). "The Prevalence of 'Alexithymic' Characteristics in Psychosomatic Patients". Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 22, pp.255-262. Summary.

Peter E. Sifneos, (1996). "Alexithymia: Past and Present". American Journal of Psychiatry, 153:7, pp.137-142.