Abstract
Alexithymia is a deficit in the cognitive processing of emotion. From a psychoanalytic perspective, alexithymia can be conceived as a disorder of affect mentalization. The present study proposes an original angle for the study of alexithymia by using an innovative method for the evaluation of affect mentalization through the analysis of discourse: the grille de l’élaboration verbale des affects (GÉVA). The GÉVA was applied to the discourse of 62 participants suffering from a respiratory disorder and whose level of alexithymia was previously assessed with the Beth Israel Hospital Psychosomatic Questionnaire (BIQ). Results show that the alexithymic participants’ discourse presents lower levels of verbal elaboration of affect as well as a lower proportion of emotional content compared to the non alexithymic participants’ discourse.
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