It has been proposed that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with difficulties perceiving the internal state of one's body (i.e., impaired interoception), causing the socio-emotional deficits which are a diagnostic feature of the condition. However, research indicates that alexithymia - characterized by difficulties in recognizing emotions from internal bodily sensations - is also lin...

Previous research has yielded inconsistent findings regarding the ability of individuals with eating disorders (EDs) to recognize facial emotion, making the clinical features of this population hard to determine. This study tested the hypothesis that where observed, emotion recognition deficits exhibited by patients with EDs are due to alexithymia, a co-occurring condition also associated with ...

BACKGROUND In 1973, Sifneos introduced the word 'alexithymia' to describe the inability to find appropriate words to describe one's feelings. To the Authors' knowledge, the associations between alexithymia and the risk of breast cancer (BC) are rarely considered together in a prospective study. PATIENTS AND METHODS In an extension of the Kuopio Breast Cancer Study 115 women with breast sympto...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the relation between alexithymia (i.e. the inability to recognize and verbalize emotions) and professional burnout. Considering the absence of relevant studies in the Greek scientific literature, the aim of this work was to examine the associations of alexithymia with the three facets of professional burnout, the perception of family support and depression i...

OBJECTIVE Alexithymia is a multi-faceted personality construct characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing emotional states. Originally based on observations of American psychosomatic patients, the construct is now studied in a variety of cultural contexts. However, few studies have critically examined alexithymia from a cultural perspective. Dere et al. [1] recently found suppo...

objective: alexithymia is recognized as a disability in explaining or understanding emotions and manifests at emotional and functional levels. this study was conducted with the aim of clarifying the role of early maladaptive schemas and attachment style in alexithymia disorder.  methods: this research was a correlational study. in this study, 220 students of tabriz university were selected by s...

the current study was aimed to examine the relationship between alexithymia and anxiety among male schizophrenic inpatients. the study was of descriptive and predictive nature. the sample consisted of 50 male patients in niayesh psychiatric hospital of tehran, all of whom diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia (at least 2 years). the toronto alexithymia scale and self-scaled anxiety scale were ad...

BACKGROUND It is often suggested in the literature that alexithymic patients are less responsive to psychotherapy than nonalexithymic patients. However, few empirical studies have examined this issue. Furthermore, it is unclear whether or not alexithymia itself may improve during psychotherapy. METHODS Fifty-five consecutive outpatients with panic disorder received short-term cognitive-behavi...

The role of depression in the expression of alexithymia in anorexia nervosa (AN) has been controversially explained and several variables that may mask or increase the presence of emotional difficulties have scant examination in previous studies. This study aims to analyze the associations between alexithymia and state variables, such as age, BMI, illness duration, treatment duration, and medic...

Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in identifying, differentiating and describing feelings. A high prevalence of alexithymia has often been observed in clinical disorders characterized by low social functioning. This review aims to assess the association between alexithymia and the ability to decode emotional facial expressions (EFEs) within clinical and healthy populations. More prec...