Mind, Fantasy & Heal by Alice Hopper Epstein

Mind, Fantasy & Heal by Alice Hopper Epstein

An explosion of interest in the application of cognitive psychology to the understanding of emotional disorders has prompted a second edition of this highly regarded book. Reviewing the work of the last decade, it looks at how emotion affects the following processes, and how they in turn contribute to emotional disorder: conscious and nonconscious processing; memory bias and memory deficits; attentional bias; schematic processing; judgements; and thoughts and images. The second edition provides in particular:

• An exploration of abnormalities in cognitive processing
• Reviews of key papers that use experimental cognitive psychology to understand emotional disorders
• Descriptions of the authors? own research in this area
• A theoretical model to explain the phenomena described

The book has been written for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate psychologists interested in cognitive models in abnormal psychology, for clinical psychologists using cognitive therapies, and for cognitive psychologists wishing to explore the interface between cognition and emotion. Drs Williams, Watts, MacLeod, and Mathews are world leaders in experimental psychopathology ? the authors synthesize these studies and those of other scholars, and show how the data can be accommodated by a revised version of their justly famous information-processing model of anxiety and depression. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to become conversant with cutting-edge theory and research on the cognitive aspects of anxiety and mood disorders. The first edition of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders was a masterpiece, and the second edition is even better than the first. Richard J. McNally, Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Epstein, Seymour: - SEYMOUR EPSTEIN is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A noted authority on personality, he has received continuous research support from the National Institute of Mental Health for over 40 years and has received their coveted Merit Award. He has published extensively, including an earlier trade-oriented version of this book entitled You're Smarter Than You Think (1993).

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ISBN 13	9780385297127
ISBN 10	0385297122
Title	Mind, Fantasy & Heal
Author	Alice Hopper Epstein
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Delacorte Press
Year published	1989-05-01
Number of pages	207
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