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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «PSICHOLOGIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «PSYCHOLOGY»
ISSN 2304-1226 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Psychology». 2025. Vol 51

Psychological Counselling Capacity for Correction of Alexithymia in Women with Compulsive Overnutrition

Author(s)
I. V. Yaroslavtseva, I. S. Shakhova, A. I. Van
Abstract
The study of women suffering compulsive overnutrition has revealed that they tend to have a high general level of alexithymia characterized by difficulties with identifying and describing their feelings along with clear manifestations of external thinking and non-adaptive coping strategies, such as confrontation, distancing, and avoidance. The results of a specially organized group counselling of women with a high level of alexithymia aimed at better understanding, identification of feelings and an ability to express one’s emotions, realization of their relation to physical feelings; developing skills to understand the state and feelings of other people; surmounting non-adaptive coping strategies and acquiring adaptive ones indicate the possibility for correction activities to bring down alexithymia manifestations in women with compulsive overnutrition. It has been suggested that specially organized psychological counselling aimed at correcting alexithymia contributes to improving women’s destructive eating disorder.
About the Authors

Yaroslavtzeva Irina Vladilenovna, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor, Head of the Basic Department of Medical Psychology, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: ya-irk@yandex.ru

Shakhova Irina Savelyevna, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: Shahova-irina@lenta.ru

Van Anna Ivanovna, Psychologist, Master’s Degree in Psychology, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: anya.van13@icloud.com

For citation
Yaroslavtseva I.V., Shakhova I.S., Van A.I. Psychological Counselling Capacity for Correction of Alexithymia in Women with Compulsive Overnutrition. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Psychology, 2025, vol. 51, pp. 79-92. https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2025.51.79 (in Russian)
Keywords
alexithymia, coping strategies, compulsive overnutrition, correction, psychological counselling.
UDC
159.9.072.432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2025.51.79
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