Involuntary images and visual memories are prominent in many types of psychopathology.
Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, other anxiety disorders, depression, eating …

Mental imagery has been considered relevant to psychopathology due to its supposed
special relationship with emotion, although evidence for this assumption has been …

One proposed function of imagery is to make thoughts more emotionally evocative through
sensory simulation, which can be helpful both in planning for future events and in …

Although imagery rescripting has long been part of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT),
recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of imagery rescripting interventions in …

Most people have experienced distressing events that they would rather forget. Although
memories of such events become less intrusive with time for the majority of people, those …

Imagery is one of the new, exciting frontiers in cognitive therapy. From the outset of cognitive
therapy, its founder Dr. Aaron T. Beck recognised the importance of imagery in the …

The features of severe health anxiety, intense and persistent anxiety about one's present
and future health, are described. In common with other anxiety disorders such as GAD …

Cognitions in the form of mental images have a more powerful impact on emotion than their
verbal counterparts. This review synthesizes the cognitive science of imagery and emotion …

Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the interrelationships between childhood
trauma, attachment, alexithymia, and the severity of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in …

Imagery rescripting is a powerful technique that can be successfully applied in the treatment
of personality disorders. For personality disorders, imagery rescripting is not used to address …