Alexithymia affects how a person experiences and interprets emotions, from noticing physical sensations in the body, to ...

However, some people have difficulty recognizing and expressing their emotions, and this tendency or disorder is called alexithymia. Rebecca Ellis, a research assistant in the Department of Health ...

Alexithymia is a psychological construct characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing emotions, as well as a tendency towards externally oriented thinking. This condition can ...

According to a new study by Matthias Burghart, a Max Planck researcher in Freiburg, this could be because these people suffer ...

From the Greek for “no words for feelings,” alexithymia is a term for difficulty with cognitively processing one’s own emotions, including paying attention to and describing them.

The 22-year-old, from Newmarket, Suffolk, also discovered she experiences alexithymia, meaning she cannot identify emotions. Saffron similarly struggles to create mental images in her mind ...

A 2023 study found that emotional divorces can also be associated with alexithymia—a difficulty in identifying and connecting with one’s emotions—and possibly depression. These mental health ...

Specifically, we were interested in exploring whether social anhedonia and alexithymia (the ability to recognise, describe and express emotions), both of which are targeted by CREST, showed ...

From the Greek for “no words for feelings,” alexithymia is a term for difficulty with cognitively processing one’s own emotions, including paying attention to and describing them.