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35 - Disordered Social Cognition

Alexithymia and Interoception

from Part VIII - Abnormal Behavior and Evolutionary Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2020

By
Rebecca Brewer  and
Geoffrey Bird
Edited by
Lance Workman ,
Will Reader  and
Jerome H. Barkow
Lance Workman
Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Will Reader
Affiliation:
Sheffield Hallam University
Jerome H. Barkow
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
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Summary

Alexithymia is a condition characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one’s own emotional states (Nemiah, Freyberger, & Sifneos, 1976). Individuals with alexithymia are often aware that they are experiencing an emotion, but struggle to determine whether it is fear, excitement, or anger, for example. Alexithymia is therefore associated with difficulties describing how one would feel in particular emotional scenarios (Lane et al., 1990), as well as with difficulties regulating one’s emotions (Stasiewicz et al., 2012; Venta, Hart, & Sharp, 2013). This chapter details the behavioral and neurological characteristics of alexithymia, its etiology (including whether it may be evolutionarily adaptive), and its role in emotional impairment across clinical populations. The relationship between alexithymia and interoception (the ability to perceive and recognize the internal state of one’s body) is also discussed, alongside evidence that alexithymia may represent a general deficit of interoception.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior , pp. 436 - 448
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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