Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Virtually everyone has experienced from time to time how hard it can be to put one’s feelings into words. Yet, for some individ-uals, this task is especially daunting. Such individuals are characterized by high levels of alexithymia (“no words for feelings”). Alexithymia is a personality dimension that involves both cognitive deficits, includ-ing difficulties in recognizing, describing, and distinguishing feelings from bod-ily sensations of emotional arousal, and affective deficits, including difficulties in emotionalizing and fantasizing (Bermond et al., 2007). Alexithymia is implicated in a wide variety of psychological prob-
Source: Frontiers in Psychology
Institutions: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Osnabrück University
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,801
Award: G3582382618
OpenAlex ID: W2102791694