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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or having
alexithymia .
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If you're alexithymic, you suffer from three main traits:
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom Kathlyn 2010
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If you're alexithymic, you suffer from three main traits:
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom Kathlyn 2010
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[RxPG] London, Nov 11 - Are you alexithymic or anhedonic?
RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News 2009
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Highly alexithymic (HA) outpatients are more likely to be female, less likely to have children and are characterized by more somatic-affective symptoms of depression and interpersonal aloofness.
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The distribution of mood diagnoses, single-episode MDD, recurrent MDD and depressive disorder not otherwise specified was not significantly different among the 3 alexithymic clusters (p >
vermontster commented on the word alexithymic
Okay - I actually think this is a fun word. But for me it is highly associated with grad school. My nerdy gift to my fellow predoc interns was a cross-word I made. The clue for the item was something like: not recognizing or able to identify one's emotions.
June 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word alexithymic
"In this same chapter, Goleman describes a class of people, known in the psychiatric literature as alexithymics, who cannot verbalize their feelings, which Goleman equates with not being aware of them. Listening to human beings attempting to communicate about their emotional experience suggests that we are all alexithymic to a significant degree."
- Kevin Langdon, Review of Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, Noesis #145, November 1999.
October 15, 2009