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Chapter 4 - Emotion Knowledge and Emotion Regulation in Alexithymia

from Part II - Emotion and Cognitive Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2018

By
Olivier Luminet  and
Giorgia Zamariola
Edited by
Olivier Luminet ,
R. Michael Bagby  and
Graeme J. Taylor
Olivier Luminet
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
R. Michael Bagby
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Graeme J. Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Alexithymia
Advances in Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice
 , pp. 49 - 77
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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