Does mental imagery affect paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs? A pilot experimental study in an analogue sample
Does mental imagery affect paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs? A pilot experimental study in an analogue sample
Background: Mental imagery is implicated in the maintenance and treatment of persecutory delusions, yet there is little experimental evidence for the effects of imagery on paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs – key therapeutic targets in CBT for psychosis.
Aims: This pilot study examined the impact of a repeated imagery task in people with high levels of non-clinical paranoia, to determine whether a fully powered study is warranted.
Method: Twenty-four people participated in a 3 × 3 mixed model design comparing paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs between imagery conditions (positive/negative/neutral) and across time-points (pre/post/follow-up).
Results: The imagery task yielded large effects on paranoia, anxiety and core self-beliefs.
Conclusions: Rehearsing interpersonal imagery in which the person experiences themselves as safe, secure, and able to trust others, may have large, sustained effects. A fully powered clinical study is warranted.
Mental imagery, anxiety, core beliefs, experimental, paranoia, pilot
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Bennetts, Alison
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Stopa, Lusia
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Newman-Taylor, Katherine
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2 April 2020
Bennetts, Alison
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Stopa, Lusia
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Newman-Taylor, Katherine
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Bennetts, Alison, Stopa, Lusia and Newman-Taylor, Katherine
(2020)
Does mental imagery affect paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs? A pilot experimental study in an analogue sample.
Psychosis, 12 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/17522439.2019.1697731).
Abstract
Background: Mental imagery is implicated in the maintenance and treatment of persecutory delusions, yet there is little experimental evidence for the effects of imagery on paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs – key therapeutic targets in CBT for psychosis.
Aims: This pilot study examined the impact of a repeated imagery task in people with high levels of non-clinical paranoia, to determine whether a fully powered study is warranted.
Method: Twenty-four people participated in a 3 × 3 mixed model design comparing paranoia, anxiety and core beliefs between imagery conditions (positive/negative/neutral) and across time-points (pre/post/follow-up).
Results: The imagery task yielded large effects on paranoia, anxiety and core self-beliefs.
Conclusions: Rehearsing interpersonal imagery in which the person experiences themselves as safe, secure, and able to trust others, may have large, sustained effects. A fully powered clinical study is warranted.
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Mental imagery in paranoia - full blind ms for resub2 - Psychosis
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 November 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 January 2020
Published date: 2 April 2020
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Mental imagery, anxiety, core beliefs, experimental, paranoia, pilot
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438942
ISSN: 1752-2439
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