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Alexithymia And Alcohol Use Disorders: A Critical Review, Fred Thorberg, Ross Young, Karen Sullivan, Michael Lyvers
Alexithymia And Alcohol Use Disorders: A Critical Review, Fred Thorberg, Ross Young, Karen Sullivan, Michael Lyvers
Mike Lyvers
All human beings experience emotion. However a number of individuals have difficulties recognising, processing and regulating their emotions. This set of emotional “deficits’ is classified as alexithymia. The prevalence rate of alexithymia in alcohol use disorders is between 45 and 67%. The objective of this paper is to review the published research on alexithymia and alcohol use, assess the methodological quality of this evidence, and draw the findings together to present a critical update on the relationship between alexithymia and alcohol use disorders. Yet, few research studies have comprehensively investigated alexithymia in alcohol use disorders, and a number of key …