A processing theory of alexithymia

Frawley, William; Smith, Raoul N.

doi:10.1016/s1389-0417(01)00029-8

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“…Many studies demonstrated the association between high alexithymia and low psychological health [6][7][8][9]; however, this is the first study that showed a relationship between alexithymia and compliance behavior. This important result could guide specific psychological treatment focused on alexithymic aspects of patients who have undergone kidney transplant in order to increase their compliance to immunosuppressive therapy [2,3,5,6].…”

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“…Some researchers suggest that alexithymia may affect the health status of chronically ill patients [6]. This difficulty to recognize emotions may be a protective strategy against highly stressful situations [7] or be a result of an arrest in psychological development [8]. This emotional condition might have a key role in explaining both compliance to treatments and QoL.…”

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Emotional self-efficacy and alexithymia may affect compliance, renal function and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study

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Emotional self-efficacy and alexithymia may affect compliance, renal function and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study

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et al. 2015

Physiology & Behavior

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“…If speech serves mental computation across modules, what does cross-domain mental computation require of speech? Any answer must explain how representations are made visible to one another (Frawley 2002a;Frawley & Smith 2001). At interfaces, representations must be maximally overt, so that one domain may check the truth of the output of another.…”

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“…If Carruthers is right, intermodular knowledge disorders ought to evince ancillary, self-regulatory speech disruptions. Indeed, this seems to be the case for alexithymia, arguably a cross-domain emotional deficit whose signal symptom is a deficit in affective talk, even though the syndrome is not a language disorder at all (Frawley & Smith 2001).…”

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The cognitive functions of language

2002

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This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis, dismissing some as implausibly strong and others as uninterestingly weak. Strong forms dismissed include the view that language is conceptually necessary for thought (endorsed by many philosophers) and the view that language is de facto the medium of all human conceptual thinking (endorsed by many philosophers and social scientists). Weak forms include the view that language is necessary for the acquisition of many human concepts and the view that language can serve to scaffold human thought processes. The paper also discusses the thesis that language may be the medium of conscious propositional thinking, but argues that this cannot be its most fundamental cognitive role. The idea is then proposed that natural language is the medium for nondomain-specific thinking, serving to integrate the outputs of a variety of domain-specific conceptual faculties (or central-cognitive "quasimodules"). Recent experimental evidence in support of this idea is reviewed and the implications of the idea are discussed, especially for our conception of the architecture of human cognition. Finally, some further kinds of evidence which might serve to corroborate or refute the hypothesis are mentioned. The overall goal of the paper is to review a wide variety of accounts of the cognitive function of natural language, integrating a number of different kinds of evidence and theoretical consideration in order to propose and elaborate the most plausible candidate.Keywords: Cognitive evolution; conceptual module; consciousness; domain-general; inner speech; language; logical form (LF); thought Peter Carruthers is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Until recently he Directed the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of eight books, coeditor of four, and has published numerous articles in journals and collections. There are two major foci to his main research area in philosophy of psychology. One is the nature of consciousness, where he has developed and defended a form of higher-order thought theory. The other is the architecture of human cognition, and the place of natural language within it.that language is only a channel, or conduit, for transferring thoughts into and out of the mind, they are then obliged to claim that the stream of inner verbalization is more-or-less epiphenomenal in character. (Some possible minor cognitive roles for inner speech, which should nevertheless be acceptable to those adopting this perspective, will be canvassed later.) The real thinking will be going on elsewhere, in some other medium of representation.One reason for the popularity of the communicative conception amongst cognitive scientists is that almost all now believe that language is a distinct input-output module of the mind (at least in some ...

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“…[26] Örneğin, Frawley ve Smith'e göre, terapötik başarı, sözel olarak model olma ya da gerçeğe uygun tasvirler yapma yoluyla duyguları açık ve belirgin hale getirme gibi müdahalelerle sağlanabilir. [29] Acı veren deneyimlerin aleksitimik hastaları çok fazla sarstığı düşünülmektedir. Bu deneyimler bu hastalar tarafından zihinselleştirilememiş, yani uygun olarak adları konulamamış ve kişinin otobiyografik belleğine işlenememiştir.…”

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Alexithymia: Treatment Interventions

Şaşıoğlu¹,

Gülol²,

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2014

Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar - Current Approaches in Psychia

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ÖzetAleksitimi "duygular için söz yokluğu" anlamına gelmekte ve kişideki aleksitimi düzeyi arttıkça, psikoterapi sürecinin de olumsuz etkilendiği bilinmektedir. Dolayısıyla aleksitimi skorlarından da hastaların klinik tedavisinde uzmanlara yol gösterecek önemli bir araç olarak yararlanılabileceği düşünülmektedir. Bu kuramsal derleme çalışmasında, aleksitimi tedavisinin günümüzde ne noktada olduğu sorusuna yanıt aranmıştır. Bu soruyu yanıtlamak için aleksitimik özelliklerin uzun vadede terapi sonucu üzerindeki etkileri ve aleksitimi tedavisinde öne çıkan psikoterapi yaklaşımlarına odaklanılmıştır. Bu bağlamda, ilgili araştırmaların sonuçları ışığında, aleksitimi tedavisinin farmakoterapiden psikoterapiye gelişimi; aleksitimik bireylerin psikoterapide bağlanma ve ilerleme sorunu; tedavilerindeki engelleri aşmak için yararlanılabilecek psikoterapötik yöntemler ve aleksitimi tedavisinde diğer yaklaşımlara kıyasla öne çıkan grup terapisi ve bilişsel davranışçı terapi alt başlık-ları ele alınmıştır.Anahtar sözcükler: Aleksitimi, tedavi, psikoterapi, grup terapisi, bilişsel davranışçı terapi. AbstractAlexithymia means "no words for emotions" and the psychotherapy process is known to be negatively influenced, as the level of alexithymia increases. Therefore, alexithymia score is considered as an essential tool helping clinicians treat the patients. In this literature review, ongoing discussions on the alexithymia treatment will be studied by focusing on the long-term effects of the alexithymic characteristics on the treatment results and the prominent psychotherapy approaches in the alexithymia treatment. In the light of the related studies' results, the treatment of alexithymia will be examined in terms of its progress in time from pharmacotherapy to psychotherapy; problems of attachment and progress in psychotherapy; psychotherapeutic techniques, which help clinicians overcome the obstacles in the treatment process. At this point, the focus will be on group therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy, as they are considered as the prominent therapies in comparison with the other therapy approaches in the treatment of alexithymia.

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A processing theory of alexithymia

Cited by 29 publications

References 16 publications

Emotional self-efficacy and alexithymia may affect compliance, renal function and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study

Emotional self-efficacy and alexithymia may affect compliance, renal function and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study

The cognitive functions of language

Alexithymia: Treatment Interventions

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