Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders

Williams, J. Mark G. / Watts, Fraser N. / MacLeod, Colin M. / Mathews, Andrew

Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology

2. Edition April 1997
416 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-471-94430-0

John Wiley & Sons

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This book responds to the explosion of interest in using the methods of experimental cognitive psychology to help understand emotional disorders, especially common anxiety and depressive disorders. It reviews recent research, focusing on how emotion affects the following: conscious and non-conscious processing, memory bias and memory deficits, attentional bias, schematic processing, judgements, thoughts and images. It also explores how irregularities in these processes can contribute to emotional disorders

The Cognitive Approach to Emotional Disorders.

The Information-processing Paradigm.

Cognitive Impairments.

Attention to Emotional Stimuli, I: Causes and Correlates.

Attention to Emotional Stimuli, II: Mechanisms UnderlyingBias.

Memory.

Thoughts and Images.

Judgement.

Schemata.

Nonconscious Processing.

Theoretical Overview.

References.

Indexes.

J. Mark G. Williams, D Phil, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry.

Fraser N. Watts is the author of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Colin M. MacLeod is the author of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Andrew Mathews is the author of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.