Assessing and Treating Emotionally Inexpressive Men

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What if your new client, a man in his early 40s, cannot answer basic questions in your initial assessment interview? You think he might be alexithymic, but you do not know how to assess for that, or even more importantly, how to treat it. Assessing and Treating Emotionally Inexpressive Men has answers.

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Part 1: Theory and Research 1. The Normative Male Alexithymia Hypothesis 2. Research on Normative Male Alexithymia and Related Phenomena 3. Research on the Severity of Normative Male Alexithymia Part 2: Assessment 4. Variance Composition, Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 in Non-clinical Samples 5. The Normative Male Alexithymia Scale: Measurement of a Gender-Linked Syndrome 6. The Development and Evaluation of a Brief Form of the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS-BF) Part 2 Conclusion Part 3: Treatment 7. Alexithymia Reduction Treatment (ART): A Manual for a Brief Psycho-educational Intervention for Treating Normative Male Alexithymia. Individual Therapy Format 8. Alexithymia Reduction Treatment (ART): A Manual for a Brief Psycho-educational Intervention for Treating Normative Male Alexithymia. Group Therapy Format. 9. The Efficiacy of Alexithymia Reduction Treatment: A Pilot Study Part 4: Case Studies 10. The Man Who Felt Nothing About His Impending Fatherhood 11. The 'Both/And' Approach to Treating a Postmodern Couple