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.
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