Being alexithymic: Necessity or convenience. Negative emotionality× avoidant coping interactions and alexithymia

E Bilotta, M Giacomantonio, L Leone… - Psychology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives We aimed to clarify the associations between negative emotionality, avoidant
coping, and alexithymia. We hypothesized that negative emotionality and avoidance …

Do alexithymic individuals avoid their feelings? Experiential avoidance mediates the association between alexithymia, psychosomatic, and depressive symptoms in a …

G Panayiotou, C Leonidou, E Constantinou… - Comprehensive …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Alexithymia is defined as the trait associated with difficulty in identifying and
describing feelings as well as poor fantasy and imagery. While alexithymia is related to …

[HTML][HTML] Alexithymia and emotional processing: A longitudinal mixed methods research

AN Da Silva, AB Vasco, JC Watson - Research in Psychotherapy …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alexithymia has been associated with poor outcomes in psychotherapy. This association
has been attributed to a difficulty in patients processing emotions and engaging in emotional …

Developing emotional skills and the therapeutic alliance in clients with alexithymia: intervention guidelines

A Nunes da Silva - Psychopathology, 2021 - karger.com
Despite being a longstanding and well-established concept, alexithymia is unfamiliar for
many clinicians. This article aimed to address the alexithymia concept from a clinical …

Alexithymia and emotional processing: A mediation model

AN da Silva, AB Vasco… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Although alexithymia has been associated with difficulties in emotional regulation,
both constructs are complex and this association remains unclear. This research attempts to …

[HTML][HTML] What is the relationship between alexithymia and experiential avoidance? A latent analysis using three alexithymia questionnaires

NT Torunsky, S Knauz, I Vilares… - Personality and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is a clinically relevant personality trait characterized by poor emotional
awareness and associated with several psychological and physical health concerns …

[HTML][HTML] Examining proposed changes to the conceptualization of the alexithymia construct: The way forward tilts to the past

GJ Taylor, RM Bagby - Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 2021 - karger.com
Fifty years ago, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics published an article by John Nemiah
and Peter Sifneos [1] in which they reported some clinical observations on the mentation of a …

Alexithymia and emotion regulation

DA Preece, A Mehta, K Petrova, P Sikka… - Journal of affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Alexithymia is a key transdiagnostic risk factor for emotion-based
psychopathologies. Conceptual models specify that this is because alexithymia impairs …

Alexithymia: should this personality disorder be considered during treatment of patients with mental illness?

RR Reeves, D Johnson-Walker - Journal of Psychosocial …, 2015 - journals.healio.com
Alexithymia is characterized by impairment of an individual's ability to experience, identify,
and express emotions, and is associated with impaired emotional intelligence and an …

[PDF][PDF] Roots of alexithymia

D Šago, G Babić - Arch Psychiatry Res, 2019 - hrcak.srce.hr
This paper presents the historical background and theoretical framework of alexithymia and
the development of the instruments that measure this theoretical construct more accurately …