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Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology: Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Directions »

Authors: Jenny Yiend
ISBN-13: 9780521833912, ISBN-10: 0521833914
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jenny Yiend

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.

Book Synopsis

Cutting edge account of the cognitive-clinical literature sets the agenda for future research.

	An introduction and synthesis	1
	Andrew Mathews : a brief history of a clinical scientist	8
1	The positive and negative consequences of worry in the aetiology of generalized anxiety disorder : a learning theory perspective	29
2	Trait anxiety, repressors and cognitive biases	49
3	A cognitive-motivational perspective on the processing of threat information and anxiety	68
4	Maintenance or capture of attention in anxiety-related biases?	86
5	Habits of thought produce memory biases in anxiety and depression	109
6	Anxiety and the resolution of ambiguity	130
7	Dissociating fear and disgust : implications for the structure of emotions	149
8	The causal status of anxiety-linked attentional and interpretive bias	172
9	The experimental modification of processing biases	190
10	Maintenance mechanisms in social anxiety : an integration of cognitive bases and emotional processing theory	213
11	Mental imagery and social phobia	232
12	Experimental cognitive psychology and clinical practice : autobiographical memory as a paradigm case	251
13	Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy	270
14	Clinical difficulties to revisit	290