Alexithymia is a person’s inability to express their feelings and emotions in words. Alexithymia is a common cause of psychosomatics. The term was first coined by psychiatrist Peter Sitheos in 1973. By this term he understood the difficulty in distinguishing between external events and sensations in the body; a person's difficulty with imagination; greater focus on what is happening outside, not inside - not in emotions; greater reliance on the brain and logic than on feelings; difficulty in naming what a person feels. Alexithymia can be congenital and acquired, physiological or social. Congenital alexithymia is based on physiological disorders during the mother’s pregnancy, hereditary traits from close relatives or head injuries, infections, severe stress in a person after birth. Socially acquired alexithymia can develop in a person during the process of upbringing in a family. When the parenting style within the family is traumatic. The child is forbidden to show feelings: “Don’t feel!”, “You’re not in pain!”, “No need to be angry!”, “You laugh strangely,” etc. That is, the child learns not to listen to what he feels and what is happening in his body. People with alexithymia are divided into 3 categories: The first category is the complete absence of any feelings. A person can express: “I don’t feel anything at all!” The second category is a partial ban on feelings. For example: “I understand two states - good or bad”, “In my family it was only allowed to be happy, it was forbidden to be angry!” The third category is a person experiences feelings, but names them incorrectly. For example: “I was sad!” (with a description of anger). There are several methods for diagnosing alexithymia. For example: - Toronto Alexithymic Scale; - Alexithymia Scale in the MMPI test. Often people with alexithymia are susceptible to psychosomatic diseases, because they are accustomed to repressing many my feelings. And unlived feelings “go away” into psychosomatic diseases. When working with people with alexithymia, the psychologist focuses on: 1. Working with a person’s true desires; 2. Awareness and correction of family traumas and scenarios;3. Development of human imagination and creativity;4. Connection with the body. When working with alexithymia, the “Atlas of Feelings and Emotions” method and a number of others are well suited. Creativity therapy works well. Essentially, we teach a person to be aware of what he feels, how to correctly express it and apply this knowledge in his life. How to respond to your emotions correctly so that they do not create new problems in the form of psychosomatic diseases. Be attentive to yourself and express your feelings correctly!