Current Developments in Alexithymia - A Cognitive and Affective Deficit (Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology) - Hardcover

Teixeira , Ricardo João

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1536133051 ISBN 13: 9781536133059

Verlag: Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Current Developments in Alexithymia: A Cognitive and Affective Deficit is a book that aims to establish a tangible synthesis between aspects that sometimes disorient the clinician and allow for framing in some others that are considered as central in the research necessary in this field. Since the original definition was coined by Sifnéos and Nemiah, alexithymia has been found to be associated with a broad range of somatic and psychiatric disorders, and the concept has been refined theoretically speaking. Alexithymia is now accepted as an affective deficit and a normally distributed multifaceted personality variable characterized by impairments in the ability to experience and symbolize ones own and others emotions. The alexithymia construct retains important relevance for affective, social and cognitive neuroscientific research as it is tightly linked to the understanding of mechanisms of cognitive and affective processing, emotional awareness and social interaction. Alexithymia has gained increased attention as a possible vulnerability factor for a variety of medical and psychopathological disorders. Collectively, alexithymic facets have been shown to reflect deficits in the capacity to process and consciously experience emotions as well as to regulate emotional states through cognitive processes. The present book presents current findings, reviews and models on affective and cognitive mechanisms of alexithymia in healthy and clinical samples, offering some new reflections and orientations for academics and clinicians in fields such as clinical and health psychology, counseling psychology, psychiatry, social work, and psychiatric nursing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1536133051
• ISBN 13: 9781536133059
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 469
• Herausgeber: Bermond Bob, Moormann Paul
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