Jenny Yiend (ed.)

Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology

Herausgeber: Yiend, Jenny

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection is a tribute to Andrew Mathews, distinguished researcher in cognition and emotion. It presents an account of the cognitive-clinical literature and sets an agenda for future work. The book is structured around theoretical, empirical and clinical approaches. Theoretical topics covered include learning theory, attentional processes and repression. Empirical work on for example, cognitive training, ambiguity resolution and functional imaging is discussed. In the final section work with a clinical perspective includes imagery, social anxiety, autobiographical memory and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. The list of contributors includes some of the leading researchers in the field and will ensure that this book appeals to a broad international readership in cognitive science, neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and the study of emotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833912
• ISBN-10: 0521833914
• Artikelnr.: 21874547

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.