Mental imagery is an under-explored field in clinical psychology research but presents a
topic of potential interest and relevance across many clinical disorders, including social …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

Objective: This study examines patients' pictorial representations of their chronic pain,
alongside their accounts of those images, in order to help our understanding of their lived …

What is mental imagery? Mental imagery occurs when perceptual information is accessed
from memory, giving rise to the experience of “seeing with the mind's eye,”“hearing with the …

1.1 Aim This guideline plays an important role in the process of consolidation and
improvement of care for patients with abdominal and pelvic pain. From both literature and …

Mental imagery has the potential to influence perception by directly altering sensory,
cognitive, and affective brain activity associated with imagined content. While it is well …

Acupuncture and imagery interventions for pain management have a long history. The
present study comparatively investigated whether acupuncture and video-guided …

Purpose Chronic pain is a highly prevalent and distressing condition with limited treatment
efficacy. Prior research reports associations between the experience of mental imagery …

Background Research into mental imagery has increased our understanding of a range of
psychological problems. However, there has been little study into the spontaneous mental …

Therapy with mental images is prevalent in the field of chronic pain, and this has been the
case for centuries. Yet few of the recent advances in the cognitive behavioural …