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Insight and alexithymia in adult outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

October 2005

Department of Oncology and Neurosciences, Institute of Psychiatry, University G.D'Annunzio of Chieti Palazzina SE.BI., Scuole di Specializzazione, via dei Vestini, 31, 66013, Chieti, Italy.

Objective: To elucidate the relationships between insight and alexithymia in a sample of adult outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Methods: 112 adult outpatients with OCD were tested. Severity of OCD was assessed with the first 10-items of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and score for item # 11 on the Y-BOCS was considered as a measure of insight.

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