Experience of Joy and Sadness in Alexithymic Emotional Discourse

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties identifying and describing emotions. Suffering from a deficit in the cognitive processing of emotions, alexithymic individuals are unable to symbolize their emotions. Even though emotional elaboration is one of the core aspects of alex...

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Main Authors: Marie-Mathilde Dupont-Leclerc, Serge Lecours, Prof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2018-07-01
Series:Language and Psychoanalysis
Online Access:http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com//article/view/2640