Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness

ISBN-13: 9780521778503 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str.

Graeme J. Taylor; R. Michael Bagby; James D. Parker

Opis

This work provides an entirely new perspective on emotional influences on mental and physical health. The authors present current thinking on the development and regulation of emotions and argue that several common but difficult to treat psychiatric illnesses, including drug addictions, eating disorders, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorders, are a consequence of an individual's inability to regulate distressing emotions through mental processes. They also advance a model in which dysregulated emotions may alter other bodily systems and thereby contribute to the development of physical illnesses and diseases. The book is generously illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes and provides descriptions of innovative therapeutic approaches. This volume will become a valuable and stimulating reference for clinicians and researchers alike.

Recenzje

'The authors support their ideas with hundreds of references from their own research, as well as from the work of others, providing a comprehensive synthesis of current thinking regarding alexithymia … Psychotherapists of clients with eating, personality, mood, and substance abuse disorders can gain a new understanding of the difficulties faced by those who have disturbances in affect regulation. And physicians who see patients who express their emotions somatically can learn from this new conceptualization of alexithymia as a risk factor for illness and disease.' Bulletin of the Nenninger Clinic

Spis treści

Foreword James S. Grotstein; Acknowledgements; Introduction Graeme Taylor; 1. The development and regulation of affects Graeme Taylor, Michael Bagby and James Parker; 2. Affect dysregulation and alexithymia Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor; 3. Measurement and validation of the alexithymia construct Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor; 4. Relations between alexithymia, personality, and affects James Parker and Graeme Taylor; 5. The neurobiology of emotion, affect regulation and alexithymia James Parker and Graeme Taylor; 6. Somatoform disorders Graeme Taylor; 7. Anxiety and depressive disorders and a note on personality disorders Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor; 8. Substance use disorders Graeme Taylor; 9. Eating disorders Graeme Taylor; 10. Affects and alexithymia in medical illness and disease Graeme Taylor; 11. Treatment considerations Graeme Taylor; 12. Future directions James Parker, Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor; References; Index.