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    Alexithymia (/əˌlɛksɪˈθaɪmiə/ ə-LEK-sih-THY-mee-ə), also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges...
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  • The Toronto Alexithymia Scale is a measure of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions. It was developed in 1986 and later revised...
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  • different mental disorders. Some individuals described as loners have alexithymia, characterized by the inability to identify and describe emotions. Other...
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    to emotion and feeling of any kind. This is closely related to alexithymia. "Alexithymia is a subclinical phenomenon involving a lack of emotional awareness...
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    levels of alexithymia, which is difficulty in identifying and describing one's emotions. Although AS, lower sleep quality, and alexithymia are associated...
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    compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), alexithymia, somatic symptom disorder, and illness anxiety disorder. The contemporary...
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  • include avolition, alogia and catatonic behaviour. Closely related is alexithymia – a condition describing people who "lack words for their feelings. They...
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    a positive correlation between alexithymia and exploitative beliefs, suggesting those with higher levels of alexithymia were more likely to endorse the...
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  • has no story to tell: Alexithymia". Psychiatric Times. 17 (7): 1–6. Frewen PA, Pain C, Dozois DJ, Lanius RA (Jul 2006). "Alexithymia in PTSD: psychometric...
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  • psychoanalytic term for alexithymia, a neurological condition characterized by severe lack of emotional awareness. McDougall felt that alexithymia had become too...
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