alexithymia

Etymology
From.

Created by psychiatrists and Peter Sifneos from  +  +, meaning “without words for emotions”.

Noun

 * 1) A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
 * 2) * 2008, Amy Kroska and Sarah K. Harkness, “Exploring the Role of Diagnosis in the Modified Labeling Theory of Mental Illness” in  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.

Translations

 * Chinese: 述情障礙
 * Emilian: alesitimìa
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 * Japanese: アレキシサイミア
 * Norwegian: aleksitymi
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 * Portuguese: alexitimia
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 * Turkish: aleksitimi