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Intrusive Mental Imagery in Psychological Disorders: Is the Self the Key to Understanding Maintenance?

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Çili, Soljana, Stopa, Lusia·2015·Frontiers in Psychiatry

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OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 17 July 2015Sec. Mood Disorders Volume 6 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00103

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  • Distressing images of threat related to the future or past may maintain anxiety symptomatology or impede exposure therapy.

    “Distressing images of threat related to the future or past may maintain the anxiety symptomatology or impede exposure therapy.”

    From Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy or supportive counseling prior to exposure therapy in patients with panic disorder: study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial (IMPROVE) (2023) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Role of Images in Disorder Onset and Maintenance section says intrusive images may maintain disorders through anxiety, avoidance, and safety behaviors. The Origin of Intrusive Images section describes images linked to past experiences and imagined future events. The paper does not say that such images impede exposure therapy, and its example of future imagery concerns depression rather than anxiety. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • Anxiety patients often report vivid and distressing mental images of threat related to past aversive events or anticipated future threat.

    “previous research showed that anxiety patients often report vivid and distressing mental images of threat [23, 24], related to past aversive events (“flash-backs”) or, likely more importantly, anticipated future threat (i.e., “flash-forwards”) [25, 26].”

    From Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy or supportive counseling prior to exposure therapy in patients with panic disorder: study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial (IMPROVE) (2023) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Characteristics and Origin of Intrusive Images sections describe vivid, distressing images linked to feared outcomes and past adverse experiences in several anxiety disorders. The paper’s explicit example of a future-oriented “flash-forward” concerns depression, however; it does not establish that anticipated future threats are more important than past events for anxiety patients. It also notes that images can be brief and infrequent in generalized anxiety disorder. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Çili, S., & Stopa, L.
Affiliations
  • University of the Arts London (GB)
  • University of Southampton (GB)
Corresponding author
Çili, Soljana
Venue
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Published
2015-07-17
Volume
6
Pages
103-103
ISSN
1664-0640 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1526324506
Cited by
45
References
63
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 3
FWCI
0.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
University of Southampton
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
mental illness, self, intrusive thoughts, mood disorders

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