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Four decades of research on alexithymia: moving toward clinical applications

Dalya Samur, Mattie Tops, Caroline Schlinkert, Markus Quirin, Pim Cuijpers, Sander L. Koole

Frontiers in Psychology · 2013 · 103 citations · 38 references

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OPINION article Front. Psychol., 19 November 2013Sec. Cognition https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00861

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