Is Alexithymia the Emotional Equivalent of Blindsight?

1997/11/01 by Richard D. Lane, Richard D Lane, Geoffrey L. Ahern +5 · 309 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Psychology · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Alexithymia #Expression (computer science) #Feeling #Meaning (existential) #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Personality #Psychiatry #Psychoanalysis #Psychoanalytic theory #Psychology #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Psychosomatic medicine #Psychotherapist #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/s0006-3223(97)00050-4

published in Biological Psychiatry 42(9), 834-844 (Elsevier BV)

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• The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure
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