Acathexis
Acathexis is a psychoanalytic term for a lack of emotional response to significant memories or actual interactions, where such a response would normally be expected.[1]
The term also refers more broadly to a general absence of normal or expected feelings.[2]
Acathexis has been linked to anxiety, bipolar disorder and dementia,[3] while the phenomenon also appears in posttraumatic stress disorder.[4]
See also
- Alexithymia
- Anhedonia
- Anticathexis
- Body cathexis
- Cathexis
- Decathexis
- Flattened affect
References
Further reading
- P. Sifeos, 'Affect. Emotional Conflicts, and Deficits' Psychotherapy-and-Psychosomatics 56 (1991) 116-22
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