Early clinical impressions that alexithymia is associated with diminished dream recall have been supported by more recent research. The present study was designed to examine this association using self-report measures and a carefully screened clinical population. Thirty-three male and 43 female asthmatics from an outpatient clinic were administered the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Eysenck...
Classical philosophical ideas on the mind-body problem were interpreted in the light of contemporary theories. There are two mind-body theories that are suspect for a natural scientist, namely, parallelism and panpsychism. There are three further theories that are considered radical and not supported by current research: epiphenomenalism, central-state materialism and behaviorism. That leaves...