Imagination inflation and the perils of guided visualization

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 581-595

  Paddock, John R ^a   Terranova, Sophia ^b   Noel, Mark ^b   Eber, Herbert W ^c   Manning, Charles ^d   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^d  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Psychological Resources   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001356933     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223989909599764     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Armstrong, J. G., & Loewenstein, R. J. (1990). Characteristics of patients with multiple personality and dissociative disorders on psychological testing. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 178, 448-454.
3. Austin, V. (1994). Self hypnosis. San Francisco: Thorsons.
4. Bass, E., & Davis, L. (1988). The courage to heal: A guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse. New York: HarperCollins.
5. Bass, E., & Davis, L. (1992). The courage to heal: A guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse (2nd ed.). New York: HarperCollins.
6. Bass, E., & Davis, L. (1994). The courage to heal: A guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse (3rd ed.). New York: HarperCollins.
7. Benefeldt, F., Miller, L. L., & Ludwig, A. M. (1976). Cognitive performance in conversion hysteria. Archives of General Psychiatry, 33, 1250-1254.
8. Benjamin, L. S. (1983). The INTREX users' manual, Part /. Madison, WI: Intrex Interpersonal Institute.
9. Benjamin, L. S. (1996). Interpersonal diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford.
10. Bernstein, E. M., & Putnam, F. W. (1986). Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174, 727-735.
11. Bradshaw, J. (1992). Homecoming: Reclaiming and championing your inner child. New York: Bantam.
12. Campos, A. (1990). A factor analytic study of two measures of mental imagers. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 71, 995-1001.
13. Carlson, E. B., & Putnam, F. W. (1993). An update on the Dissociative Experiences Scale. Dissociation, 6, 16-24.
14. Cattell, R. G., Eber, H. W., & Tatsuoka, M. M. (1970). Handbook for the 16PF. Champaign, IL: Institute for Personality and Ability Testing.
15. Claridge, K. (1992). Reconstructing memories of abuse: A theory-based approach. Psychotherapy, 29, 243-252.
16. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
17. Cohen, J., & Cohen, P. (1983). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
18. Conn, S. R., & Rieke, M. L. (Eds.). (1994). 16PFfifth edition: Technical manual. Champaign, IL: Institute for Personality and Ability Testing.
19. Courtois, C. A. (1991). Theory, sequencing, and strategy in treating adult survivors. New Directions for Mental Health Services, 51, 47-60.
20. Dawes, R. M. (1994). House of cards: Psychology and psychotherapy built on myth. New York: Free Press.
21. Dolan, Y. M. (1991). Resolving sexual abuse: Solution-focused therapy and Ericksonian hypnosis for adult survivors. New York: Norton.
22. Earleywine, M., & Gann, M. K. (1995). Challenging recovered memories in the courtroom. In J. Ziskin (Ed.), Coping with psychiatric and psychological testimony (5th ed., pp. 1100-1134). Los Angeles: Law and Psychology Press.
23. Edwards, D. J. (1990). Cognitive therapy and the restructuring of early memories through guided imagery. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 4, 33-50.
24. Fredrickson, R. (1992). Repressed memories: A journey to recovery from sexual abuse. New York: Fireside.
25. Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 3, 208-214.
26. Gilligan, S. G., & Kennedy, C. M. (1989). Solutions and resolutions: Ericksonian hypnotherapy with incest survivor groups. Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies, 8, 9-17.
27. Gottman, J. M. (Ed.). (1995). The analysis of change. New York: Basic.
28. Heaps, C., & Nash, M. R. (1999). Individual differences in imagination inflation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 313-318.
29. Herman, J. L. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York: Basic.
30. Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Loftus, E. F. (1997). Some people recover memories of childhood trauma that never really happened. In P. S. Appelbaum, L. A. Uyehara, & M. R. Elin (Eds.), Trauma and memory: Clinical and legal controversies (pp. 3-24). New York: Oxford.
31. Issac, A., Marks, D. F., & Russell, D. G. (1988). An instrument for assessing imagery of movement: The Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ). Journal of Mental Imagery, 10, 23-30.
32. Izard, C. E. (1977). Human emotions. New York: Plenum.
33. Keane, T. M. (1998). Psychological and behavioral treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. In P. E. Nathan & J. M. Gorman (Eds.), A guide to treatments that work (pp. 398-407). New York: Oxford.
34. Kelly, G. A. (1955). The psychology of personal constructs: Clinical diagnosis and psychotherapy. New York: Norton.
35. Kepner, M. D., & Neimark, E. D. (1984). Test-retest reliability and differential patterns of score change on the Group Embedded Figures Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 1405-1413.
36. Lindsay, D. S., & Read, J. D. (1994). Psychotherapy and memories of childhood sexual abuse: A cognitive perspective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8, 281-288.
37. Loftus, E. F. (1980). Memory. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
38. Loftus, E. F. (1993). The reality of repressed memories. American Psychologist, 48, 518-538.
39. Loftus, E. F., & Ketcham, K. (1996). The myth of repressed memory. New York: St. Martin’s.
40. Loftus, E. F., & Loftus, G. R. (1980). On the permanence of stored information in the human brain. American Psychologist, 35, 409-420.
41. Loftus, E. F., Milo, E. M., & Paddock, J. R. (1995). The accidental executioner: Why psychotherapy must be informed by science. The Counseling Psychologist, 23, 300-309.
42. Loftus, E. F., Paddock, J. R., & Guernsey, T. F. (1996). Psychotherapist-patient privilege: Access to clinical records in criminal actions involving repressed memory. University of Richmond Law Review, 30, 109-154.
43. Meichenbaum, D. (1994). A clinical handbook/practical therapist manual for assessing and treating adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Waterloo, Canada: Institute Press.
44. Nathan, P. E., & Gorman, J. M. (Eds.). (1998). A guide to treatments that work. New York: Oxford.
45. Ofshe, R., & Watters, E. (1994). Making monsters: False memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria. New York: Scribners.
46. Paddock, J. R., Kobes, S., Terranova, S., & Eber, H. W. (1998). The Kobes-Paddock Assessment of Sensory Absorption Scale (KPASA): Preliminary evidence for reliability and construct validity. Manuscript in preparation, Kennesaw State University.
47. Pendergrast, M. (1996). Victims of memory: Sex abuse accusations and shattered lives (2nd ed.). Hinesburg, VT: Upper Access.
48. Poole, D. A., Lindsay, D. S., Memon, A., & Bull, R. (1995). Psychotherapy and the recovery of memories of childhood sexual abuse: U.S. and British practitioners’ opinions, practices, and experiences. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 426-437.
49. Radtke, H. L., & Stam, H. J. (1991). The relationship between absorption, openness to experience, anhedonia, and susceptibility. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 39, 39-56.
50. Reardon, R. R., & Rosen, S. (1984). Psychological differentiation and the evaluation of juridic information: Cognitive and affective consequences. Journal of Research in Personality, 18, 195-211.
51. Rodgers, J. E. (1982). The malleable memory of eyewitnesses. Science, 82, 32-35.
52. Rosenthal, R. (1966). Experimenter effects in behavioral research. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
53. Ruggieri, V., Cei, A., Bergerone, C., & Guerrara, A. (1981). Cognitive style and perspective reversal. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 53, 745-746.
54. Smith, M. (1993). Ritual abuse: What it is, why it happens, and how to help. San Francisco: Harper.
55. Smyser, C. H., & Baron, D. A. (1993). Hypnotizability, absorption, and subscales of the Dissociative Experiences Scale in a nonclinical population. Dissociation, 6, 42-46.
56. Spiegel, D. (1989). Hypnosis in the treatment of victims of sexual abuse. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, 295-305.
57. Wakefield, H., & Underwager, R. (1994). Return of the furies: An investigation into recovered memory therapy. Chicago: Open Court.
58. Williams, M. B. (1994). Establishing safety in survivors of severe sexual abuse. In M. B. Williams & J. F. Sommer, Jr. (Eds.), Handbook of posttraumatic therapy (pp. 162-178). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
59. Witkin, H. A., Oltman, P. K., Raskin, E., & Karp, S. A. (1971). A manual for the Embedded Figures Tests. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
60. Yapko, M. (1994). Suggestions of abuse. New York: Simon & Schuster.