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There is no scientific consensus on its classification as a personality trait, medical symptom, or mental disorder. [7] [8] Alexithymia occurs in approximately 10% of the population and often co-occurs with various mental or neurodevelopmental disorders. [9] It is present in 50% to 85% of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). [10]
McDougall felt that alexithymia had become too strongly classified as a neuroanatomical defect [2] [3] and concretized as an intractable illness [4] leaving little room for a purely psychoanalytic explanation for this phenomenon.
Hesse, C., & Floyd, K. (2008). Affectionate experience mediates the effects of alexithymia on mental health and interpersonal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 25(5), 793–810. Horan, S. M. (2012). Affection Exchange Theory and Perceptions of Relational Transgressions. Western Journal of Communication, 76(2), 109–126.
Robert Michael Bagby (born 1953) is a Canadian psychologist, senior clinician scientist and director of clinical research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto . [ 1 ]
"Alexithymia is a subclinical phenomenon involving a lack of emotional awareness or, more specifically, difficulty in identifying and describing feelings and in distinguishing feelings from the bodily sensations of emotional arousal" [13] At its core, alexithymia is an inability for an individual to recognize what emotions they are feeling—as ...
Reduced affect display, sometimes referred to as emotional blunting or emotional numbing, is a condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual. It manifests as a failure to express feelings either verbally or nonverbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage emotions.
Individuals with an anxious-preoccupied attachment style are characterized by a strong desire for closeness and intimacy in their relationships, but they often experience high levels of anxiety and uncertainty about the availability and responsiveness of their attachment figures. [2]
Amplification is related to alexithymia. [6] [7] Amplification may also contribute to multiple-drug intolerance (if the adverse effects that are reported are non-specific). [8] It is unclear whether amplification is related to observations that Type A personality traits may be associated with delayed recovery after organic illness. [9] [10]