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Peter E. Sifneos·1996·American Journal of Psychiatry

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“INTRODUCTION Alexithymia was introduced conceptually in 1970 and defined as alienation to self feelings; difficulty in describing, identifying, and expressing feelings; or a decrease in the capacity and potential to identify and verbalize emotions due to deficits or limitations in the cognitive processing (1,2,3,4,5,6…”
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“However, it is important to note that individuals with alexithymia are generally referred as impaired in emotional self-awareness (Sifneos, 1972, 1996) that represent a fundamental aspect of ToM ability (Decety & Jackson, 2004; Gallup, 1998).”
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Relationship of Alexithymia, Rumination and Coping Style with Psoriasis and Their Effects on The Clinical Features
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“…hisleri adlandırma ve ayırt etmede güçlük, (2) hayal kurma kapasitesinde kısıtlılık, (3) duyguları, duyguların yol açtığı bedensel duyumlardan ayırmada güçlük ve (4) kişinin iç dünyası yerine çevresel nesne ve durumlara karşı aşırı bir zihinsel meşguliyet göstermesi (Nemiah 1976, Sifneos 1996).”
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Jáni, M., Kikinis, Z., Lošák, J., Pasternak, O., Szczepankiewicz, F., Heller, C., Swago, S., Silva, A., Sylvain Bouix, A., Kubicki, M. R., et al. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.601742 · Cited by 8
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“[41] found no difference of prevalence of alexithymia (a personality trait which in a literal sense means ‘‘without words for emotions’’ [44]) between patients with NFA-type of DA and normal asthma while Plaza et al.”
Relationship of premenstrual and menstrual symptoms to alexithymia among nursing students
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“…[61], of the construct of alexithymia, defined as the set of characteristics involving difficulty in identifying and expressing feelings, an absence of imagination, a style of concrete and outward-oriented thinking, and a difficulty in differentiating between emotions and body sensations [62,63].”
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“In the earlier study we suggested that psychopaths may be suffering from alexithymia, a deficiency in the ability to identify feelings in words (Sifneos, 1994, 1996; see Patrick, 1994; Williamson, Harpur, & Hare, 1991).”
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High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation modulates eye gaze on emotional faces in college students with alexithymia: An eye-tracking study
Zhang, L., Xuan, R., Chen, Q., Zhao, Q., Shi, Z., Du, J., Zhu, C., Yu, F., Ji, G., & Wang, K. (2022) · Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110521 · Cited by 10
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“This is a practical solution statistically, but has core limitations from a theoretical perspective because alexithymia theorists agree that EOT is a crucial component of the construct (e.g., Bagby et al., 2020; Preece et al., 2017; Sifneos, 1996; Vorst & Bermond, 2001).”
Clinical Considerations Regarding Regression in Psychotherapy with Patients with Conversion Disorder
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“Sifneos (1996) coined the term alexithymia to describe patients without a capacity to identify or describe their feeling states.”
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A signal-detection approach to individual differences in negative feeling
Karmon-Presser, A., & Meiran, N. (2019) · Heliyon · doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01344 · Cited by 5
“Alexithymia refers to a limited ability to recognize and verbalize own emotions (Sifneos, 1996), poor recognition of bodily sensations stemming from an emotional arousal, and an external cognitive style, a concrete approach, with repetitive non-psychologically related details (Wise et al., 2004).”
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Influence of Selected Biomarkers on Stress and Alexithymia in Patients Under Hemodialysis Treatment
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“Başlangıçta psikosomatik hastalarda görülen belirtileri açıklamak için ortaya atılmışsa da,[2] günümüzde aleksitimi birçok farklı psikiyatrik bozuklukta,[3] hatta sağlıklı popülasyonda karşımıza çıkan bir kişilik özelliği olarak kabul görmektedir.”
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“Many authors (Bates et al., 1979; Bromberg, 2003; Buhl, 2002; Clift & Clift, 1984; Foss, 1966; Kalsched, 1996, 1999; Keinanen, 1997; Pestalozzi, 2003; Sifneos, 1996; Solomon, 2004) have asserted that this symbolic function is fundamental to integrative functioning.”
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“Alexithymia is closely related to emotion regulation, a concept etymologically derived from the Greek which roughly means “lack of words for emotion”, and it has been defined as an inability to define or describe emotions, or to distinguish emotions from other bodily sensations [14].”
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“Alexithymia (Sifneos, 1996) is a personality construct characterized by a reduced ability to identify and describe feelings, limited imagination and a preoccupation with externally-oriented thinking.”
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Facial and Body Posture Emotion Identification in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Young Adults
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“states or sensations, difficulty in the ability to describe emotions, a poor fantasy life, and externally oriented thinking (14).”
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“Psychopaths may be autonomically responsive but suffering from alexithymia, a deficiency in the ability to identify feelings in words (Sifneos, 1994, 1996; see Patrick, 1994; Williamson, Harpur and Hare, 1991).”
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“In contrast, alexithymic people fail to use their emotions adaptively because they focus on bodily symptoms, do not link emotions to eliciting situations or to somatic activation, and do not distinguish emotions (Sifneos, 1996).”
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“Similar suppression of emotions can be found in schizoid disorders and in a less clearly determined group of people with alexithymia (McDougall, 1989; Nemiah, 1978; Sifneos 1973, 1996), which is literally an absence of vocabulary for moods.”
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The role of premorbid personality in the genesis of psychopathological symptomatology in patients with organic anxiety-depressive disorder, schizophrenia and endogenous depression
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“Alexithymia, named from the Greek meaning “lack of word for emotion”, is a personality construct involving difficulties in the cognitive processing of emotions [1–3].”
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“To characterize individuals with low emotion awareness, Sifneos introduced the term alexithymia (Sifneos, 1996), a multidimensional subclinical phenomenon that afflicts about 10% of the general population (Salminen et al., 1999) and encompasses difficulties in identifying and describing feelings,…”
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Authors: Sifneos, P. E.
Affiliations: Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author: Peter E. Sifneos
Venue: American Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Published: 1996-07-01
Volume: 153
Issue: 7
Pages: 137-142
ISSN: 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
1535-7228
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.153.7.137
OpenAlex: W2417129686
Cited by: 426
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 18
FWCI: 2.46
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Empathy and Medical Education
Keywords: alexithymia, emotional awareness
MeSH terms: Affective Symptoms, Combined Modality Therapy, Humans, Psychophysiologic Disorders, Psychotherapy, Psychotropic Drugs, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results, History, 20th Century

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