Jason Thompson > Quotes

“Accompanying this external style of functioning may be a propensity to be guided rather by strict rules, regulations and social conformity which provide existential anchoring via their predictable codes of behaviour, rather than by feelings which for the alexithymic individual provide no such security.”
― Jason Thompson, Emotionally Dumb: An Overview of Alexithymia

“many alexithymic individuals do display a capacity for sophisticated controlled imagining, consciously using imagination for practical means such as how to work out a problem or construct a useful idea or object. This ability suggests that spontaneous imagining is the specific deficit in question.”
― Jason Thompson, Emotionally Dumb: An Overview of Alexithymia