The role of language in alexithymia: moving towards a multi-route model of alexithymia

Alexithymia is characterised by difficulty identifying and describing one’s own emotion. Identifying and describing one’s emotion involves several cognitive processes, so alexithymia may result from a number of impairments. Here we propose the alexithymia language hypothesis - the hypothesis that la...

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Main Authors: Hobson, H, Brewer, R, Catmur, C, Bird, G
Format: Journal article
Published: SAGE Publications 2019