Imagery Rescripting as a Therapeutic Technique: Review of Clinical Trials, Basic Studies, and Research Agenda

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15. An investigation of the specificity and vividness of autobiographical memories and future events produced in response to disgust-related cues among individuals with eating disorders
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17. The four pathways of assertiveness: a multidimensional framework for enhancing individual well-being
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18. Brief imagery rescripting is equivalent to imaginal exposure in improving response to worry images among high worry individuals
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19. Cognitive restructuring and imagery modification in insomnia disorder: a feasibility study
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20. Imagery rescripting for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder not responding to outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy
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21. Reconsolidation and Trauma Memory
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23. People Diagnosed with Personality Disorders in Art Therapy: What Is the Scientific Evidence? Effectiveness of Art Therapy in Personality Disorders
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25. The application of imagery rescripting to intrusive autobiographical memories in depression
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26. Mental Imagery: Greasing the Mind's Gears
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27. Role of AI in ADME/Tox toward formulation optimization and delivery
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28. Hypnotherapy for agoraphobia—Feasibility and efficacy investigated in a pilot study
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29. Imagery rescripting: The value of an added positive emotion component
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31. Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting
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32. Hitting the Rewind Button: Imagining Analogue Trauma Memories in Reverse Reduces Distressing Intrusions
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33. Posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen
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34. Early memories in social anxiety: A meaningful and enduring collaboration with my Dad
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36. Relationships are Constructed from Generalized Unconscious Social Images Kept in Steady Locations in Mental Space
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37. The immediate and lasting effects of imagery rescripting and their associations with imagery tendency in young adults with childhood maltreatment history: An ERP study
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38. The physiological signature of imagery rescripting: Associations between heart rate and session-level outcomes
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39. Does treating emotional memories come at a price? Effects of single-session EMDR, imaginal exposure, and imagery rescripting on forced-choice recognition of event details in healthy adults – a laboratory study
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40. First-Hand Accounts of Suicidal Mental Imagery: A Taxonomy of Imagery Types
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41. Investigating the effect of post-retrieval imagery rescripting on the reinstatement of generalised fear
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45. Group imagery imagery rescripting via telehealth decreases dysfunctional personality beliefs and the meta-emotional problem but does not increase positive self-compassion
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46. Active imagery rescripting in virtual reality as a promising tool to address psychological conditions
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47. Evidenzbasierte Psychotherapie posttraumatischer Belastungsstörungen – ein Update
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48. Cognitive–behavioural therapy for complex post-traumatic stress disorder
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49. The outcomes of imagery-focused interventions in relation to distress in people with delusions: a systematic literature review
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50. Schema coaching techniques, Part 3: Imagery rescripting and transformational chairwork
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51. Misinformation during imagery rescripting exercises increases false memories
    Sanne T. L. Houben, Maarten J.V. Peters, Marleen M. Rijkeboer, Conny W.E.M. Quaedflieg, Pauline Dibbets · 2025 · Journal of Criminal Psychology
52. Increased GM-WM in a prefrontal network and decreased GM in the insula and the precuneus are associated with reappraisal usage and reduced perceived stress: A data fusion approach
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53. Imagery Rescripting of Autobiographical Memories Versus Intrusive Images in Individuals with Disordered Eating
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54. Kelly’s Circle of Safety and Healing: An Extended Schema Therapy Narrative and Interpretative Investigation
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55. Expanding the emotion-focused therapy task of focusing to process emotional injury
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56. Treatment Satisfaction and Therapeutic Alliance in Three Different Treatment Groups for Test Anxiety
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57. Schema Therapy, Contextual Schema Therapy and Case Formulation: Commentary on Chapter “Case Formulation in Process-Based Therapies”
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58. Effects of Imagery Rescripting on Emotional Responses During Imagination of a Socially Aversive Experience
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62. Imagine Before You Decide: Episodic Simulation Increases the Likelihood of Choosing the Simulated Option
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75. Decluttering the Mind: Imagery Rescripting Compared to a Verbal-Processing Strategy to Address Difficulty Discarding in Hoarding
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77. Imaginal Role Interventions for Adolescent Emotional Overwhelm and Trauma-Related Features: A 10-Session School-Based Experience-Sampling Feasibility Study
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78. From Panic Disorder to Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder: Retrospective Reflections on the Case of Tariq
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79. Imagery Rescripting in der Behandlung von Angststörungen
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80. Posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen
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83. Blended delivery of imagery rescripting for childhood PTSD: A case study during the COVID-19 pandemic
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84. Çocukluk Döneminde Maruz Kalınan İstismar Nedeniyle Travma Sonrası Stres Bozukluğu Yaşayan Bireylere Özgü Etkili Psikolojik Tedaviler
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88. Efficacia dell'Imagery Rescripting nel ridurre le convinzioni disfunzionali: uno studio pilota
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96. Imagery in Art Therapy: A Schema-Focused Approach
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97. Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
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98. Processing emotional pain using the expanded Emotion Focused Therapy task of Focusing: A single-session case study
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