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What is emotional processing?
Emotional processing & psychological therapy
Measuring emotional processing
Emotional processing & psychological disorder
Emotional processing & panic attacks
Emotional processing & physical health
Emotional processing & gender
Emotional processing
& forgiveness
Tears - nature's emotional processing?
Emotional processing & older people
Scientific conundrums
Overlaps with related concepts
General references

 

What is emotional processing?

Definitions
Possible mechanisms
Emotional processing model
Perspectives from philosophy
General references on 'What is emotional processing?

 

Definitions

 

Rachman, S. (1980). Emotional processing, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 18, 51-60.

Rachman, S. (2001).  Emotional processing, with special reference to post-traumatic stress disorder. International Review of Psychiatry, 13, 164-171.

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Possible mechanisms

 

Brewin, C.R., Dalgleish T. & Joseph S (1996)  A dual representation theory of post traumatic stress disorder.  Psychological Review 103 670-686

Brewin, C.R. & Holmes E.A. (2003)  Psychological theories of post traumatic stress disorder.  Clinical Psychology Review 23, 339-376

Bucci, W. (1997) Symptoms and symbols: A multiple code theory of somatization.  Psychoanalytic Inquiry 17, (2), 151-172

Epstein, S. (1994)  Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious.  American Psychologist 49, (8), 709-724

Foa, E.B. & Kozak, M.J. (1986)  Emotional processing of fear: Exposure to corrective information.  Pschological Bulletin 99, (1), 20-35

Gidron, Y., Duncan, E., Lazar A., Biderman A., Tandeter H., Shvartzman P. (2002)  Effects of guided written disclosure of stressful experiences on clinic visits and symptoms in frequent clinic attenders.  Family Practice 19, (2), 161-165

Greenberg, L.S. & Safran J.D. (1987) Emotion in Psychotherapy, London: The Guildford Press

Horowitz, M.J. (1979) Psychological response to serious life events in V. Hamilton & D.M. Warberton (Eds) Human stress and cognition.  New York: Wiley

Horowitz, M.J. (1986) Stress response syndrome (2nd ed) Northvale, NJ

Horowitz, M.J., Markman H.C., Stinson C.H., Fridhandler B. & Ghannam J.H. (1990) A classification theory of defences in J.L. Singer (Ed) Repression and dissociation: implications for personality theory, Psychopathology & Health, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Lang, P.J. (1977) Imagery in therapy.  An information processing analysis of fear.  Behaviour Therapy, 8, 862-886

Lang, P.J. (1979) An bio-informational theory of emotional imagery.  Psychophysiology

Lang, P.J. (1985) The cognitive psychophysiology of emotion: fear and anxiety.  In A.H. Tuma & J. Maser (Eds) Anxiety and the anxiety disorders (pp 131-170) Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum

LeDoux, J.E. (1993) Emotional memory system in the brain.  Behavioural Brain Research, 58, 69-79

LeDoux, J. (1998) The emotional brain.  New York, Touchstone

Leventhal, H. (1979) A perceptual motor processing model of emotion.  In P. Pliner, K. Blanenstein & I.M. Spiegel (Eds) Perception of emotion in self and others, Vol 5, New York, Plenum Press

Samoilov, A. & Goldfried, M.R. (2000).  Role of emotion in cognitive-behaviour therapy.  Clinical Psychology, Science and Practice, 7 (4), 373-383

Teasdale, J.D. (1999) Emotional processing, three modes of mind and the prevention of relapse of depression.  Behaviour Research & Therapy, 37, S37-S77


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Emotional processing model

 

Baker, R. (2001) An emotional processing model for counselling and psychotherapy: a way forward?  Counselling in Practice 7(1), 8-11

Baker, R., Thomas, S., Thomas, P., Holloway, J., Horne, S. & Lothian, S. (2002) Development of a new emotional processing scale for use in physical and psychological health.  July 2003, 12th Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions, Cuenca, Spain

Baker, R., Thomas, S., Thomas, P., Holloway, J., Horne, S. & Lothian, S. (2002) Development of a new emotional processing scale for use in physical and psychological health. September 2003, 3rd International Conference on the (Non) Expression of Emotions in Health & Disease, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Baker R., Thomas S., Thomas P.W., Owens M. (Submitted) Development and initial validation of an emotional processing scale.

Holloway J., Owens M., Baker R. (2002, updated 2003, 2004)  Information Booklet: Emotional Processing Research.  Unpublished document, Dorset Research & Development Support Unit, Poole Hospital, Dorset

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Perspectives from philosophy

 

Aristotle on the art of poetry (1920)  Translated by Ingram Bywater, Oxford: Clarendon

Brener, C. (1957) the nature and development of the concept of repression on Frued's writings.  Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 12, 19-46

Descartes, R. (1901) Meditations on First Philosophy.  Translated by John Veitch.  The Classical Library 'www.classicallibrary.org'.
Retrieved 20.08.03

Freud, S. (1915). Repression. Collected Papers IV. Zeitshrift, Vol III.

Freud, S. (1984) Functional somatic symptoms and hypochondriasis: a survey of controlled studies.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 32, 1021-1028

Heidegger, M. (1927) Being and time.  J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, trans. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1962

Hume, D. (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects.  3 volumes; volumes 1 and 2, London, John Noon, 1739; volume 3, London, Thomas Longman, 1740

Laing, R.D. (1959) The Divided Self.  London: Tavistock

Nietzsche, F. (1889) Thus Spake Zarathustra.  London: Unwin

Politics by Aristotle.  Translated by Benjamin Jowett.  Constitution Society 'www.constitution.org'.  Retrieved 20.08.03

Priest, S. (Ed) (2000) Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings.  London: Routledge

The Republic by Plato.  Translated by Benjamin Jowett.  The Internet Classics Archive 'http://.classics.mit.edu'.  Retrieved 20.08.03

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General references on what is emotional processing?

 

Aldwin, C.M., Levenson, M.R., Spiro III, A., Bosse, R. (1989).  Does Emotionality Predict Stress? Findings from the Normative Aging Study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56(4): 618-624. 

Allender, J. and Kaszniak, A.W. (1989).  Processing of Emotional Cues in Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type.  International Journal of Neuroscience, 46: 147-155. 

Anderson, A.K., Phelps, E.A (2000).  Expression without recognition.  Contributions of the human amygdala to emotional communication.  Psychological Science, 11(2): 106-111. 

Barrett, L.F. et al. (2001). Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion. 25(6), 713-724. 

Berridge, K.C. & Winkielman, P. (2003). What is an unconscious emotion? (the case for unconscious "liking"). Cognition and emotion. 17(2), 181-211. 

Bonanno, G.A., & Field, N.P.  (2001). Examining the delayed grief hypothesis across 5 years of bereavement.  American Behavioral Scientist, 44(5), 798-816. 

Bucci, W. (1982). The vocalisation of painful affect. Journal of communication disorders. 15, 415-440. 

Bucci, W. (1998). Transformation of Meanings in the Analytic Discourse: A Strategy for Research. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. 6(2), 233-60. 

Carver, C.S.(1989). Assessing Coping Strategies: Theoretically Based Approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol.56 (2), 267-283. 

Dawkins, K. and Furnham, A. (1989).  The colour naming of emotional words.  British Journal of Psychology, 80, 383-389. 

Dodd, M. and Bucci, W. (1987). The relationship of cognition and affect in the orientation process. Cognition. 27, 37-71. 

Dolan, R.J. (2002). Emotion, Cognition, and Behaviour. Science's Compass. Vol 298, 1191-1193. 

Epstein, S. (1973). The Self-Concept Revisited: Or a Theory of a Theory. American Psychologist. May 1973. 404-416

Epstein, S. (1994).  Integration of the Cognitive and Psychodynamic Unconscious.  American Psychologist, 49 (8), 709-724.

Epstein, S., Pacini, R., Denes-Raj, V., and Heier, H. (1996).  Individual Differences in Intuitive-Experiential and Analytical-Rational Thinking Styles.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(2): 390-405. 

Flett, G.L., Blankstein, K.R., Bator, C. and Pliner, P. (1989).  Affect Intensity and Self-Control of Emotional Behaviour, 10(1): 1-5. 

Foa, E.B., & Kozak, M.J. (1986).  Emotional processing of fear: exposure to corrective information.  Psychological Bulletin, 99, 20-35. 

Frijda, N.H. (1988) The laws of emotion.  American Psychologist 43, 349-358

Gable,S.L. et al. (2000). Behavioural Activation and Inhibition in Everyday Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol. 78, 1135-1149. 

Gross, J.J. & Levenson, R.W. (1997). Hiding Feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion. Journal of abnormal psychology. 106(1), 95-103. 

Heller, W. et al (1997) Neuropsychological correlates of arousal in self-reported emotion.  Cognition and Emotion 11(4), 383-402

Horowitz, M.J. (1993). Topics and Signs: Defensive Control of Emotional Expression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 61(3), 421-430. 

Izard et al (2001).  Emotion knowledge as a predictor of social behaviour and academic competence in children at risk.  Psychological Science, 12, 18-23. 

Leventhal, H. (1982) The integration of emotion and cognition: a view from the perceptual-motor theory of emotion.  In M.S. Clarke & S.T. Fiske (Eds) Affect and cognition, Hillsdale, NJ, Eribaum

Leventhal, H. (1984) A perceptual motor theory of emotion.  In L. Berkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social sychology, Vol 17, New York, Academic Press

Lynch, T.R. et al. (2001). A mediational model relating affect intensity, emotion inhibition, and psychological distress. Behaviour therapy. 32(3), 519-536. 

Mayer, J.D., & Geher, G. (1996).  Emotional intelligence and the identification of emotion.  Intelligence, 22, 89-113. 

Mayne, T.J. & Bonanno G.A. (2001) Emotions: current issues and future directions.  The Guildford Press, London

Nelson, L.D., and Cicchetti, D.V. (1995).  Assessment of Emotional Functioning in Brain-Impaired Individuals.  Psychological Assessment, 7(3): 404-413. 

Pally, R. (1998).  Emotional processing: The mind-body connection.  International Journal of PsychoAnalysis, 79(2): 349-362. 

Pennebaker, J.W., Mayne, T.J & Francis, M.E. (1997).  Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72: 864-871. 

Rachman, S. (1980).  Emotional Processing.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 18, 51-60 

Rachman, S. (2001). Emotional processing, with special reference to post-traumatic stress disorder. International Review of Psychiatry. 13, 164-171 

Reddy, W.M. (2001) The navigation of feeling.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Russell, B. (1991) History of Western Philosophy.  London: Routledge

Roberts, W.L. (1999).  The socialization of emotional expression: Relations with prosocial behaviour and competence in five samples.  Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 31(2): 72-85. 

Russell, J.A. (2003) Core affect and the physiological construction of emotion.  Psychological Review 110(1), 145-172

Scherer, R.R. (1993) Neuroscience projections to current debates in emotion psychology.  Cognition and emotion 7(1), 1-41

Soloman, R.C. (1993) The Philosophy of Emotions.  In Handbook of Emotions.  Edited by Michael Lewis and Jeannette M. Haviland.  P3-15, New York: The Guildford Press

Sorabji, R. (2000) Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swinkels, A., & Giuliano, T.A. (1995).  The Measurement and Conceptualization of Mood Awareness: Monitoring and Labeling One’s Mood States.  Personality & Social Psychology, 21(9), 934-949.

Teasdale, J.D. (1999).  Emotional processing, three modes of mind and the  prevention of relapse in depression.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37 (Suppl 1): S53-S77. 

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Emotional processing and psychological therapy

General reference on emotional processing and psychological therapy
Catharsis, venting and the talking cure
Core components for an emotional processing therapy

Is behaviour therapy really emotion therapy in disguise?
Is it possible to bottle up emotions?

General references on emotional processing and psychological therapy

 

Borod,J.C., Welowitz, J., Alpert, M., Brozgold, A.Z., Bartin, C., Paselow, E. & Dillier, L. (1990). Parameters of emotional processing in neuropsychiatric disorders: Conceptual issues and a battery of tests. Journal of communication disorders, Special Issue: Faces, voices and feelings: Experimental techniques and clinical implications,. 23, 247-271. 

Bozarth, J. & Brodley, B. (1991) Actualisation: A functional concept in client-centred therapy.  Handbook of Self-Actualisation, Vol 6(5), 45-60

Cain, D. & Seeman, J. (2001) Handbook of research and practice in humanistic psychotherapies.  Washington DC: APA Publications

Derogatis, L. and Melisaratos, N. (1983). The Brief Symptom Inventory: an Introductory Report. Psychological Medicine. 13, 595-605.

Elliott, R., Greenberg, L.S. & Lietaer, G. (2003)  Research on experiential therapies.  In M.J. Lambert (Ed) Bergin & Garfield's Handbook of psychotherapy and behaviour change (5th ed, pp 493-539)

Ellis, J.A. & D'Eon, J. L. (2002). Pain, emotion, and the situational specificity of catastrophising. Cognition and emotion. 16(4), 519-532. 

Greenberg, L.S. & Rice, L.N. (1981) the specific effects of a Gestalt intervention.  Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice 18, 31-37

Greenberg, L.S. & Safran, J.D. (1989) Emotion in psychotherapy.  American Psychologist, 44, 19-29

Greenberg, L.D. & Watson, J. (1998) Experiential therapy of depression: Differential effects of client centred relationship conditions and active experiential interventions.  Psychotherapy Research, 8, 210-224

Herpertz, S.C., Sass H. (2000).  Emotional deficiency and psychopathy.  Behavioral Sciences and the Law.  18(5): 567-580. 

Jenkins, J. & Oatley, K. (2000). Psychopathology and short term emotion: the balance of affects. Journal of child psychiatry. 41(4), 463-472. 

Keltner, D., & Kring, A.M. (1998).  Emotion, social function and psychopathology.  Review of General Psychology, 2, 230-342. 

Kring, A.M., Bachorowski, J.A. (1999).  Emotions and psychopathology.  Cognition and Emotion, 13(5): 575-599. 

Lambert et al (1999).  Emotions and Psychopathology.  The West Indian Medical Journal, 48(4), 203-7. 

Lubin, B., Van Whitlock, R., and Zukerman, M. (1998).  Affect traits in differential diagnosis of anxiety, depressive and schizophrenic disorders using the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List Revised.  Assessment, 5(4): 309-319. 

Lundh, L.G. et al. (2001). Cognitive bias, emotion, and somatic complaints in a normal sample. Cognition and emotion. 15(3), 249-277. 

Matthews, A. and Macleod, C. (1994). Cognitive Approaches to Emotional Disorders. Annual Review of Psychology. 45, 25-50. 

Mearns, D. & Thorne, B. (2000) Person-centred therapy today: new frontiers in theory and practice.  London: Sage

Ochsner, K.N. et al. (2002). Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 14(8), 1215-1229. 

Offer, R., Laive, R., Gothelf, D. &  Apter, A. (2000).  Defense mechanisms, negative emotions, and psychopathology in adolescent inpatients.  Comprehensive Psychiatry, 41(1): 35-41. 

Rogers, C.R. (1951) Client-centred therapy.  Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin

Rogers, C.R. & Dymond R. (1954) Psychotherapy and personality change.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press

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Scott Brown, L. and Wright, J. (2001). Attachment Theory in Adolescence and its relevance to Developmental Psychopathology. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 8, 15-32.   

Stiles, W.B. & Glick, M.J. (2002) Future directions in research on humanistic psychotherapy.  In D.J. Cain & J. Seeman (Eds), Humanistic psychotherapies:  Handbook of research and practice (pp 605-616) Washington DC: American Psychological Association

Truax, C. & Carkhuff, R. (1967) Toward effective counselling and psychotherapy.  Chicago: Aldine

Watts, F.N. (1992).  Applications of current cognitive theories of the emotions to the conceptualisation of emotion disorders.  British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 31, 153-167.

Whelton, W. (2004) Emotional processes in psychotherapy: evidence across therapeutic modalities.  Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 11, 57-8

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Catharsis, venting and the talking cure

 

Bushman, B.J. (2002) Does venting anger feed or extinguish the flame?  Catharsis, rumination, distraction, anger and aggressive responding.  Personality & social Psychology Bulletin, 28(6), 724-731

Freud, S. & Brewer, J. (1893) On the psychical mechanism phenomena: preliminary communication in studies in hysteria, Standard Edition 2,3

Freud, S. & Brewer, J (1895) Studies in hysteria

Freud, S.  Selected papers on hysteria

Kennedy-Moore, E.& Watson, J.C. (1999) Expression emotion.  Guildford Press, New York

Tavris, C. (1984) On the wisdom of counting to ten; personal and social dangers of anger expression.  In P Shaver (Ed) Reviewing personality and social psychology, Vol 5, Beverly Hills, Sage

Tavris, D. (1989) Anger.  The misunderstood emotion.  New York: Simon & Schuster

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Core components for an emotional processing therapy

 

Baker, R., Baker, E., Allen, H., Thomas, P., Newth, J., Hollingbery, T., Gibson, S. & Golden, S. (2002) A naturalistic longitudinal evaluation of counselling in primary care.  Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 15(4), 359-373

Foa, E.B. & Rothbaum, B.O. (1997) Treating the trauma of rape.  New York, Guildford Publications

Gendlin, E.T. (1978) Focusing (original version) Everest House

Gendlin, E.T. (1996) Focusing-orinented psychotherapy: a manual of the experiential method.  New York: Guilford Press.

Gidron, Y., Duncan, E., Lazar, A., Biderman, A., Tandeter, H., Shvartzman, P. (2002)  Effects of guided written disclosure of stressful experiences on clinic visits and symptoms in frequent clinic attenders.  Family Practice 19, (2), 161-165

Gilsdorf, R. (1998) Gestalt and experiential education, in Itin C. (Ed), Exploring the boundaries of adventure therapy.  Boulder: AEE, 131-143

Greenberg, L. (1994) seminar on emotion in psychotherapy, Leuven, May 2nd

Greenberg, L., Paivio, S. (1997)  working with emotions in psychotherapy.  New York: The Guilford Press

Greenberg, L., Rice L. & Elliot, R. (1993) Facilitating emotional change: the moment-by-moment process.  New York: The Guilford Press

Greenberg, L.S. & Safran, J.D. (1987) Emotion in Psychotherapy, London: The Guildford Press

Hayes, S.C., Strosahl, K.D. Wilson, K.G. (1999)  Acceptance and commitment therapy; an experiential approach to behaviour change.  Guilford Press, New York

Homas-Webb, L., Stiles, W.B., Greenberg, L., Goldman, R. (1998)  Assimilation analysis of process- experiential psychotherapy: a comparison of two cases.  Psychotherapy Research, 8, 264-286

Marks, I. (1987) Fears, phobias and rituals.  Oxford University Press, New York

Pennebaker, J.W. (1997) Opening up; the healing power of expressing emotions.  Guilford Press, New York

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Weekes, C. (1989) 'The key to resisting relapse in panic' Chapter 15 in R. Baker (Ed) Panic Disorder: Theory research & therapy.  John Wiley, Chichester

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Is behaviour therapy really emotion therapy in disguise?

 

Blakey, R. & Baker, R. (1980) an exposure approach to alcohol abuse.  Behaviour Research & Therapy 18, 319-325

Childress, A.R., McLellan, A.T. & O'Brien, C.P. (1986) Abstinent opiate abusers exhibit conditioned craving, conditioned withdrawal and reductions both through extinction.  British Journal of Addication, 81, 655-660

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Eysenck, H.J. (1979) The conditioning model of neurosis. 

Foa, E.B., Molnar, C. & Cashman, L. (1995) Change in rape narratives during exposure therapy for PTSD.  Journal of Traumatic Stess, 8, 675-690

Foa, E.B., Kozak, M.M., Steketee, G. & McCarthy, P.R. (1992) Treatment of depression and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in OCD by imipramine and behavioural therapy.  British Journal of clinical Psychology, 31, 279-292

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Ramsay, R.W.  (1977) Behaviour approaches to bereavement.  Behaviour Research & Therapy 5(2), 131-135

Rapee, R. & Barlow, D. (1989) Psychological treatment of unexpected panic attacks; cognitive/behavioural components in R. Baker's Panic Disorder - Theory, Research & Therapy.  J. Wiley, Chichester

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Wolpe, J. (1958) Psychotherapy by reciprocal inhibition.  Standford University Press, Standford, California

Is it possible to bottle up emotions?

 

Bohart, A.C. (1980) Toward a cognitive theory of catharsis.  Psychotherapy: Theory Research & Practice, Vol 17, 192-201

Evans, D. (2001) Emotion; the science of sentiment.  Oxford University Press, Oxford

Gendlin, E.T. (1976) Focussing-oriented psychotherapy.  Guildford, New York

Guinagh, B. (1987) Catharsis & cognition in psychotherapy.  Springer, New York

Kosmicki, F.X. & Glickhauf-Hughes, C. (1997) Catharsis in Psychotherapy.  Psychotherapy 34, 154-159

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Welton, W.J. (2004) Emoti0nal processes in psychotherapy, evidence acress therapeutic modalities.  Clinical Psychiatry & Psychotherapy 11, 58-71

 

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Measuring emotional processing

Baker, R (2000) Emotional processing & panic attacks.  Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Winchester.

Baker, R. (2001) An emotional processing model for counselling a psychotherapy: a way forward?  Counselling in Practice 7(1) 8-11

Baker, R., Holloway J., Thomas, P.W., Thomas, S., Owens, S.  (2004) Emotional processing and panic.  Behaviour Research & Therapy, Vol 42, Issue 11, 1271-1287

Baker, R., Thomas, S., Thomas, P.W., Holloway, J., Horne, S., Lothian, S. (2002) Development of a new emotional processing scale for use in physical and psychological health.  July 2002  12th Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Cuenca, Spain

Baker, R., Thomas, S., Thomas, P.W., Holloway, J., Horne, S., Lothian, S. (2002) Development of a new emotional processing scale for use in physical and psychological health.  July 2002  3rd International Conference on The (Non) Expression of Emotions in Health & Disease, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Baker, R., Thomas, S., Thomas, P.W., Owens, M (Submitted) Development and initial validation of an emotional processing scale.

Baker, R., Thomas S., Thomas P.W., Owens, M. (2007)  Development of an emotional processing scale.  Journal of Psychosomatic Research 62, 167-178

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Emotional processing and psychological disorders

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Anorexia

Alloy, L.B., Abramson, L.Y., Whitehouse, W.G., Hogan, M.E., Tashman, N.A., Steinberg, D.L., Rose, D.T., and Donovan, P. (1999).  Depressogenic cognitive styles: predictive validity, information processing and personality characteristics and developmental origins.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, 503-531. 

Baker. R, Holloway. J, Thomas P. W., Thomas S., Owens., M.  Emotional Processing and Panic.  Behaviour Research & Therapy, Vol 42, 11, 1271-1287

Ballenger, J.C. (1999).  Current Treatments of the Anxiety Disorders in Adults.  Biological Psychiatry, 46: 1579-1594. 

Beck, A.T. (1987). Cognitive Models of Depression. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. Vol. 1(1), 5-37. 

Beck, A.T., and Clark, D.A. (1997).  An Information Processing Model of Anxiety: Automatic and Strategic Processes.  Behaviour Research and Therapy 35(1), 49-58.   

Braithwaite, V.A. (1987).  The Scale of Emotional Arousability: bridging the gap between the neuroticism construct and its measurement.  Psychological Medicine, 17: 217-225. 

Castonguay, L.G. et al. (1996). Predicting the Effect of Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A Study of Unique and Common Factors. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Vol. 64(3), 497-504. 

Chilvers, C. et al. (2001). Antidepressant drugs and generic counselling for treatment of major depression in primary care: randomised trial with patient preference arms. British Medical Journal, Vol. 322, 772-775. 

Deldin, P.J. et al. (2001). Cognitive bias and emotion in neuropsychological models of depression. Cognition and emotion. 15(6), 787-802.

Derogatis, L.R. & Melisaratos, N. (1983) The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report, Psychological Medicine, 13(3), 595-605

De Ruiter, C. and Brosschot, J. F. (1994). The emotional Stroop interference effect in anxiety: attentional bias or cognitive avoidance? Behaviour Research and Therapy. Vol. 32(3), 315-319. 

Feske & Shear (1999).  Progress in psychosocial assessment and treatment.  Depression – Anxiety, 9(1), 32-43. 

Habel, U. et al (2000).  Emotional processing in schizophrenia across cultures: Standardized measures of discrimination and experience.  Schizophrenia Research, 42(1), 57-66. 

Habel, U. et al (2002). Emotional Processing in Psychopathic Personality. Aggressive Behaviour. 28, 394-400. 

Hooley, J.M. (1999). Expressed Emotion and Clinical Outcome in Borderline Personality Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 1557-1562 

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