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Mental Imagery and Psychopathology: Examples of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

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This chapter aims to provide an update on the relation between mental imagery and psychopathology, with particular reference to post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar affective disorder. Current evidence is provided to give an overview of the strengths and limitations of existing cognitive behavioural therapies for these two psychological disorders. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate how imagery interventions may be incorporated into cognitive behavioural therapy to enrich the array of treatment strategies and possibly enhance its efficacy.

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Acknowledgements

Roger MK Ng would like to thank Helen Kennerley and Freda McManus for sharing and providing him with directions and guidance in his ongoing research on mental imagery in bipolar disorder. He would also like to thank his research team members, Dr. C.T. Chan and Dr. Jasmine Lau, as well as the staff and patients of the Department of Psychiatry, Kowloon Hospital, for facilitating research on imagery and bipolar disorder.Julie Krans would like to thank Michelle L. Moulds for her comments on a draft. Julie was supported by a Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Emily A Holmes is supported by the Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellowship (WT088217), The Lupina Foundation, The Medical Research Council, and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre based at Oxford University Hospitals Trust Oxford University. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of NHS, the NHIR or the Department of Health.

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    Julie Krans

  3. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

    Emily A. Holmes

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Ng, R.M.K., Krans, J., Holmes, E.A. (2013). Mental Imagery and Psychopathology: Examples of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. In: Lacey, S., Lawson, R. (eds) Multisensory Imagery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5879-1_19

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