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This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and relaxation training program in alleviating alexithymia among university students, study sample consisted of (30) female students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Benha. They suffers from a lack of ability to express feelings “alexithymia scale” (prepared by researcher) and the preparation of a program for the psychotherapy of cognitive behavioral and another program for relaxation training. The study samples divided in to three groups (two experimental and control group). The study’s results was the following: that cognitive-behavioral therapy has effective at the level (0.01) and relaxation training program is significant at (0.05) which indicates the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy a greater degree of relaxation in reducing alexithymia. (Published abstract)