Organic Alexithymia: A Study of Acquired Emotional Blindness

Alexithymia
Organic alexithymia: a
study of acquired emotional
blindness

TOPIC: Organic alexithymia:
a study of acquired
emotional blindness
DESIGN: Qualitative
PROTOCOL: Alexithymia
INTRO: THEMATIC ANALYSIS

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Introduction
Alexithymia refers to a psychosomatic condition that mainly
characterized by difficulty in identifying and verbalizing the emotions, as
well as constricted imaginal processes including a stimulus-bound, that
externally oriented cognitive style. The population of patients having
acquired brain injury (ABI), clinical experiences of this group, reflects
existence of a sub-category, that termed as `organic alexithymia’. To
determine if symptoms displayed in organic alexithymia resembles with
same characters and mechanisms of other forms of the alexithymia,
present article is chosen that demonstrates about clinical relevance of
this health issue, to treat patients with acquired brain injury.