Alexithymie et victimation chronique au sein du couple

The difficulty at differentiating emotions, resulting from a lower level of emotional awareness, was shown to be a protective strategy against internal and external attacks. This adjustment would be permeable unconscious emotional discharges that would comprise the emotion regulation process and therefore, would allow the violence to continue. The question of chronicity in the victimation process as well as all the results of this study lead us to question the position of the victims of domestic violence in front of risk-taking behaviors. The risk confrontation in domestic violence could lead to secondary alexithymia, which in such situation could be qualified as an adaptive adjustment. The lack of emotional differentiation allows a better management of the situation where the risk is controlled.