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01-08-2008 | Introduction
Introduction to Special Issue on Rumination: From Mechanisms to Treatment
Auteur:
Greg Siegle
Gepubliceerd in:
Cognitive Therapy and Research
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Uitgave 4/2008
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Excerpt
This special issue arose when, without a motivating act of editorial savvy, a number of excellent manuscripts, all on the topic of rumination, were submitted to Cognitive Therapy and Research. All articles in this special issue went through the regular peer review process. Having these articles together, which span themes from basic science to treatment prediction and make use of the most modern theories of the nature and role of this construct, is particularly exciting. I submit that this occurrence is probably not by chance. Rather, in the past 10 years, rumination, or broadly, the tendency to think repetitively about emotional topics, has emerged as a central mechanistic concept in psychopathology. Briefly, the importance, magnitude, and some central issues in rumination research are highlighted below as a way to set the stage for the articles to follow. …