alexithymia
suomi-englanti sanakirjaalexithymia englanniksi
A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
2008, Amy Kroska and Sarah K. Harkness, “Exploring the Role of Diagnosis in the Modified Labeling Theory of Mental Illness” in ''(w)'' LXXI, № 2 (Wrestling with Social Psychology, June 2008), page 195:
- Finally, ''schizophrenic disorders'' involve impairments of perceptions, including hallucinations and delusions, symptoms that often impair patients’ social and occupational functioning and can create alexithymia (Maggini and Raballo 2004; van ‛t Wout et al. 2007), an inability to recognize one’s own feelings.