What's in the name ‘alexithymia’? A commentary on “Affective agnosia: Expansion of the alexithymia construct and a new opportunity to integrate and extend Freud's legacy.”

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue , 2016, Pages 1006-1020

  Taylor, Graeme J ^a   Bagby, R Michael ^a   Parker, James D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Alexithymia; Anomia; Emotional awareness; Mentalization; Primal repression; Psychotherapy; Toronto Alexithymia Scale; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE AGNOSIA; AGNOSIA; ALEXITHYMIA; ANOMIA; APHASIA; AWARENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NOTE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEXUAL ABUSE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGNOSIA; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84989887919     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.05.025     Document Type: Note

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