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Psychopathology of Alexithymia and Multiple Sclerosis

Khadija ChahraouiThibault MoreauEmmanuelle Dieu

subject

AlexithymiaMultiple sclerosismedicineEmotional regulationCognitionIn patientmedicine.diseasePsychologySet (psychology)PathologicalClinical psychologyPsychopathology

description

The notion of alexithymia was introduced by Sifneos (Psychother Psychosom 22:255–62, 1973) to define a set of affective and cognitive characteristics observed in patients with psychosomatic diseases. Alexithymia appears to be a multidimensional and transnosographic concept ranging from normal to pathological, and it is important to regard alexithymia as a disorder of emotional regulation, which can be found in different populations and not only in somatic diseases.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18464-7_14