Mental Imagery and Memory in Psychopathology: A Special Issue of Memory: Special Issues of Memory

E.A. Holmes, A. Hackmann, Editorial. A. Hackmann, E.A. Holmes, Reflecting on Imagery: A Clinical Perspective and Overview of the Special Issue on Mental Imagery and Memory in Psychopathology. A. Ehlers, A. Hackmann, T. Michael, Intrusive Re-experiencing in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Phenomenology, Theory, and Therapy. S.J. Day, E.A. Holmes, A. Hackmann, Occurrence of Imagery and its Link with Early Memories in Agoraphobia. S. Osman, M. Cooper, A. Hackmann, D. Veale, Spontaneously Occurring Images and Early Memories in People with Body Dysmorphic Disorder. W. Mansell, D. Lam, A Preliminary Study of Autobiographical Memory in Remitted Bipolar and Unipolar Depression and the Role of Imagery in the Specificity of Memory. J. May, J. Andrade, N. Panabokke, D. Kavanagh, Images of Desire: Cognitive Models of Craving. M.R. Dadds, D. Hawes, B. Schaefer, K. Vaka, Individual Differences in Imagery and Reports of Aversions. M. Bywaters, J. Andrade, G.Turpin, Intrusive and Non-intrusive Memories in a Non-clinical Sample: The Effects of Mood and Affect on Imagery Vividness. M. Bywaters, J. Andrade, G. Turpin, Determinants of the Vividness of Visual Imagery: The Effects of Delayed Recall, Stimulus Affect and Individual Differences. L. Stopa, T. Bryant, Memory Perspective and Self-concept in Social Anxiety: An Exploratory Study. C.R. Hirsch, T. Meynen, D.M. Clark, Negative Self-imagery in Social Anxiety Contaminates Social Interactions. P. Gilbert, C. Irons, A Pilot Exploration of the Use of Compassionate Images in a Group of Self-critical People. A.P. Morrison, The Use of Imagery in Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: A Case Example. M.A. Conway, K. Meares, S. Standart, Images and Goals.

Imagery work can now be regarded as the leading edge of development in cognitive therapy. And this volume is at the very leading edge of imagery work... This is a landmark publication in the field of imagery and psychopathology, and is likely to be the springboard for a whole new wave of research. It will appeal in particular to clinicians with a fascination for a genuinely exciting field, and to ersearchers who wish to expand upon the pioneering work of the present authors. - James Bennett Levy, Oxford Cognitive therapy Centre, in Reviews for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 2006

This Special Issue presents a series of novel studies of imagery and its relationship to memory, in a wide range of psychological disorders.