Imagery and psychotic symptoms: a preliminary investigation
| Autor: | Anthony P. Morrison, D. Glentworth, Hazel Dunn, Graeme Reid, Aaron T. Beck, Warren Larkin, S. Williams |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male Psychosis medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Hallucinations medicine.medical_treatment Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Traumatic memories Affect (psychology) Delusions Delusion medicine Humans Paranoia Psychiatry Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Mood Disorders Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia Case-Control Studies Imagination Cognitive therapy Anxiety Female Schizophrenic Psychology medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Behaviour Research and Therapy. 40:1053-1062 |
| ISSN: | 0005-7967 |
| Popis: | Recent cognitive accounts of psychotic symptoms have suggested that processes involved in the maintenance of emotional disorders may also be implicated in the maintenance of hallucinations and delusions, and particularly emphasise the appraisals of such symptoms as important. Imaginal appraisals have been identified in emotional disorders, and many studies have reported spontaneously occurring images in patients with anxiety disorders. Such images appear to be linked to affect, beliefs and memories. This study examined the occurrence of imagery, using a semi-structured interview, in 35 patients who were experiencing hallucinations and/or delusions and receiving cognitive therapy. The majority of patients (74.3%) reported images, and most of these were recurrent and associated with affect, beliefs and memories. Common themes included images about feared catastrophes associated with paranoia, traumatic memories, and images about the perceived source or content of voices. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed and directions for further research considered. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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