2014
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Abstract: Alexithymia is the inability to identify and describe one's own or others' emotional states and is thought to affect 10 per cent of the population. Absent feelings are not the result of simple repression - as in socially phobic, avoidant or stoic personalities - that require repressed feelings to be brought to light. For those with alexithymia there occurs no initial formation of such feelings to allow for a subsequent act of repression; thus, there are no feelings to 'uncover' in therapy. Jason Thompson describes the salient features of this condition, the importance of accurate assessment of the underlying causes, and the implications for clinical practice. Imaginal feedback technique is outlined as a therapeutic avenue to restore the stunted imagination to a more functional level and reduce the level of alexithymia in certain individuals.
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