Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders

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

• ISBN13: 9780471944300
• ISBN10: 0471944300
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	vii	(1)
Series Preface	viii	(1)
Preface to the First Edition	ix	(2)
Preface to the Second Edition	xi
1. The Cognitive Approach to Emotional Disorders	1	(15)
2. The Information-processing Paradigm	16	(28)
3. Cognitive Impairments	44	(28)
4. Attention to Emotional Stimuli, I: Causes and Correlates	72	(34)
5. Attention to Emotional Stimuli, II: Mechanisms Underlying Bias	106	(27)
6. Memory	133	(36)
7. Thoughts and Images	169	(21)
8. Judgement	190	(20)
9. Schemata	210	(21)
10. Nonconscious Processing	231	(45)
11. Theoretical Overview	276	(41)
References	317	(60)
Author Index	377	(16)
Subject Index	393