Mental Imagery in Depression: Phenomenology, Potential Mechanisms, and Treatment Implications

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 249-280

  Holmes, Emily A ^a,b   Blackwell, Simon E ^a   Burnett Heyes, Stephanie ^c,d   Renner, Fritz ^a   Raes, Filip ^e  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intrusive imagery; Optimism; Overgeneral memory; Rescripting; Vividness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASES; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; IMAGINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84962173537     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-092925     Document Type: Article

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