Zrozumieć aleksytymię

Ewa Jackowska

Summary
The main goal of this article is to present a specific personality disorder that manifests in disorders of cognitive processing and emotion regulation that is known as alexithymia. Alexithymia reduces the chances of high quality of life in the psychosomatic and social aspects. Empirical research has indicated correlates with certain personality traits that affect the quality of interpersonal relations, such as low extraversion, avoidance coping, low self-esteem, poor adaptive skills, predisposition for social isolation. In this review, relationship between alexithymia and somatic health problems is discussed, along with selected research on this subject. Alexithymia is considered a biological predisposition for personality disorders and functional mental disorders. The final part of the article contains recommendations on psychotherapeutic interactions, which should be directed at deepening the awareness of experienced emotional states and modifications of pattern of interpersonal behavior.

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