Alexithymia advances in research, theory, and clinical practice

"Alexithymia is a personality trait characterised by difficulty identifying and describing subjective emotional feelings, a restricted imagination, and an externally oriented style of thinking. Individuals with high levels of this trait are at risk of developing several common psychiatric disor...

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Otros Autores: Luminet, Olivier, 1969- editor (editor), Bagby, R. Michael, editor, Taylor, Graeme J., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2018.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge medicine.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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  • Machine generated contents note: List of contributors; Foreword; Preface Mark A. Lumley; Acknowledgements; Part I. History, Assessment, and Cultural Shaping of Alexithymia: 1. History of alexithymia: the contributions of psychoanalysis Graeme J. Taylor; 2. Assessment of the alexithymia construct Angela Sekely, R. Michael Bagby and Piero Porcelli; 3. The cultural shaping of alexithymia Andrew Ryder, Momoka Sunohara, Jessica Dere and Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton; Part II. Emotion and Cognitive Processing: 4. Emotion knowledge and emotion regulation in alexithymia Olivier Luminet and Giorgia Zamariola; 5. Memory and executive functions in alexithymia Nicolas Vermeulen, Irena Domachowska and Kristy A. Nielson; 6. Language processing in alexithymia Carlotta Welding and Dalya Samur; Part III. Clinical Issues and Somatic and Psychiatric Pathology; 7. Alexithymia and physical illness Piero Porcelli and Graeme J. Taylor; 8. Attachment, trauma, and alexithymia Adriano Schimmenti and Vincenzo Caretti; 9. Relations between alexithymia and depressive and anxiety disorders and personality Kirsi Honkalampi, Domenico De Berardis, Federica Vellante and Heimo Viinama;ki; 10. Alexithymia and maladaptive regulatory behaviors in substance use disorders and eating disorders Kristen P. Morie and Nathan Ridout; 11. Social and interpersonal implications of alexithymia Delphine Grynberg, Sylvie Berthoz and Geoffrey Bird; 12. Therapeutic issues John S. Ogrodniczuk, David Kealy, George A. Hadjipavlou and Kristjana Cameron; Part IV. Biological Considerations: 13. Neuroimaging studies of alexithymia Katharina S. Goerlich and Andre; Aleman; 14. Electrophysiology of alexithymia Katharina S. Goerlich; 15. Genetic factors and endocrine and immune system functioning associated with alexithymia Michiko Kano, Hans Jörgen Grabe and Jan Terock; 16. Processing emotions in alexithymia: a systematic review of physiological markers Georgia Panayiotou, Maria Panteli and Elke Vlemincx; 17. Alexithymia and body awareness Olga Pollatos and Beate M. Herbert; 18. Conclusions and future directions Graeme J. Taylor, R. Michael Bagby and Olivier Luminet; Index.