Alexithymia

Alexithymia. I can't tell you how pleased I was to hear about this. Heh.

Although in When a Patient Has No Story To Tell: Alexithymia, Rený J. Muller, Ph.D.:

1. seems to have worked in an ER, hence probably saw an unrepresentative sample;
2. lapses into severe shrink speak, but then, that is his audience, I guess;
3. gives himself, to my ear, too much credit for insight into the psyches of his subjects;

still, I find it interesting.