Intensive physical activity and alexithymia: results from swimmers' discourse analysis.

The aim of this study was to describe and understand the relationship of swimmers' practice intensity and alexithymia features in discourse. This study investigated psychological processes in two groups of male swimmers training at different intensities. The first group was composed of 10 Expert amateurs (M age = 19.

Schizophrenia: the quest for a minimum sense of identity to ward off delusional disorder.

Objective: This study was designed to analyze the language of patients with schizophrenia exhibiting negative symptoms during a 3-month period.

Method: The computer-assisted ALCESTE method was used to simultaneously analyze the subjects' oral behaviour and speech patterns at various levels.

Results: The tested subjects had very specific speech patterns.

Increased sense of identity in delusional disorders.

Language, which is unique in each subject, can reflect how a patient copes with disease. The method ALCESTE used here made it possible at the same time to analyse the subject's verbal behavior and speech patterns at several levels. The present study was designed to analyse during a 3-mo.

Comparison of textual analysis applied to two lectures written three years apart by one author: the language satellites.

A comparative textual analysis was carried out on two essays "Thanatol" and "Double Talk," by F. Perrier, which were originally lectures given three years apart by the author, a psychoanalyst. This study involved the use of the ALCESTE software program, a computer-assisted method of discourse analysis.