Synopses & Reviews
Cutting edge account of the cognitive-clinical literature sets the agenda for future research.
Synopsis
This is a 'state of the art' account of the cognitive-clinical literature and sets an agenda for future work. It covers a range of theoretical, empirical and clinical topics including learning theory, attentional processes, cognitive training, ambiguity resolution, MRI, imagery, social anxiety, autobiographical memory and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.
About the Author
Jenny Yiend is a Research Fellow at the Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She was previously a research scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.
Table of Contents
An introduction and synthesis Jenny Yiend; Andrew Mathews: a brief history of a clinical scientist T. D. Borkovec; Part I. Theoretical Approaches: 1. The positive and negative consequences of worry in the etiology of generalized anxiety disorder: a learning theory perspective Susan Mineka; 2. Trait anxiety, repressors, and cognitive biases Michael W. Eysenck; 3. A cognitive - motivational perspective on the processing of threat information and anxiety Karin Mogg and Brendan P. Bradley; 4. Maintenance or capture of attention in anxiety related biases? Elaine Fox; Part II. Empirical Directions: 5. Habits of thought produce memory biases in anxiety and depression Paula Hertel; 6. Anxiety and the resolution of ambiguity Anne Richards; 7. Dissociative methods in the study of emotion Andrew D. Lawrence, Fionnuala C. Murphy and Andrew J. Calder; 8. The causal status of anxiety-linked attentional and interpretive bias Colin MacLeod, Lynlee Campbell, Elizabeth Rutherford and Edward Wilson; 9. The experimental modification of processing biases Jenny Yiend and Bundy Mackintosh; Part III. Clinical Perspectives: 10. Maintenance mechanisms in social anxiety: an integration of cognitive biases and emotional processing theory Jonathan D. Huppert and Edna B. Foa; 11. Mental imagery and social phobia Colette R. Hirsch and David M. Clark; 12. Experimental cognitive psychology and clinical practice: autobiographical memory as a paradigm case J. Mark G. Williams; 13. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy John D. Teasdale; 14. Clinical difficulties to revisit Gillian Butler.