Integration and Self Healing: Affect, Trauma, Alexithymia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881631807)

First published in 1993. Aexithymia is the single most common cause of poor outcome or outright failure of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The reason that this problem has escaped recognition for so long is part of the mystique and paradox of emotions. Affects are familiar to everyone. They are part of our experiences, so ordinary and common that they are equated with being human. The first part of this book is devoted to those mysterious and much studied experiences: emotions. The second part of the book concerns psychic trauma. Certain aspects of these two subjects have to be established in order to give us a broad enough view to approach the third subject: alexithymia.

Author: Henry Krystal
ISBN-10: 0881631809
ISBN-13: 9780881631807
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1993
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.01w x 1.09d