Affect School for chronic benign pain patients showed improved alexithymia assessments with TAS-20.docVIP

Melin et al. BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010, 4:5 /content/4/1/5 RESEARCH Open Access Affect School for chronic benign pain patients Research showed improved alexithymia assessments with TAS-20 Eva O Melin?1,2,3, Hans O Thulesius*?1,2,4 and Bengt A Persson?5,6 Abstract Background: Alexithymia is a disturbance associated with psychosomatic disorders, pain syndromes, and a variety of psychiatric disorders. The Affect School (AS) based on Tomkins Affect Theory is a therapy focusing on innate affects and their physiological expressions, feelings, emotions and scripts. In this pilot study we tri