Background Psychological treatments occupy an important place in evidence-based mental
health treatments. Now is an exciting time to fuel treatment research: a pressing demand for …

Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

Evolution has endowed all humans with a continuum of innate, hard-wired, automatically
activated defense behaviors, termed the defense cascade. Arousal is the first step in …

Since Freud, clinicians have understood that disturbing memories contribute to
psychopathology and that new emotional experiences contribute to therapeutic change. Yet …

For most people the use of visual imagery is pervasive in daily life, but for a small group of
people the experience of visual imagery is entirely unknown. Research based on subjective …

Involuntary images and visual memories are prominent in many types of psychopathology.
Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, other anxiety disorders, depression, eating …

Mental imagery has been considered relevant to psychopathology due to its supposed
special relationship with emotion, although evidence for this assumption has been …

Background and objectives Literature suggests that imagery rescripting (ImRs) is an
effective psychological intervention. Methods We conducted a meta-analysis of ImRs for …

Mental imagery is an experience like perception in the absence of a percept. It is a
ubiquitous feature of human cognition, yet it has been relatively neglected in the etiology …

Depression is characterized by distinct profiles of disturbance in ways autobiographical
memories are represented, recalled, and maintained. We review four core domains of …