Marine Mas, PhD💡New commentary out : "Why #Alexithymia Matters: A Process-Based Framework for a #Transdiagnostic Approach to #Psychopathology" in Clinical Psychology: Science and Pratice, with Olivier Luminet and Kristy Nielson
In this paper, we develop:
*why describing alexithymia as "transdiagnostic" is not sufficient to understand it from a clinical point of view
*the limitations of the current research & promising future perspectives
*the possibility & benefits of integrating #alexithymia in clinical case formulation
I really hope that this paper will be found by a clinical and research audience. It was a pleasure to co-write this piece, a very rich and fruitful collaboration!
This commentary follows a #meta-analysis on alexithymia and its association with eating, anxiety and depressive disorders by Yeung et al. ( https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000288). It also comes with another complementary comment written by Ronald Levant and colleagues. I would like to recommend it as well, as they detail the limitations of alexithymia measurements and develop the gendered socialization regarding emotion concepts (https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000313)