Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders, 2nd Edition

by J. Mark G. Williams (Author), Colin MacLeod (Author), Andrew Mathews (Author), Fraser N. Watts (Author)

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The study of emotional disorders from the standpoint of cognitive psychology is new. Presents the state of knowledge in the discipline, drawing together information otherwise widely scattered throughout the literature and covers current speculations about causation and mechanism. Emphasis is on disorders of anxiety and depression, patients' biases in information processing, experimental paradigms which work (and those which don't), interpreting the phenomenology of the emotionally show more disordered, the relation between conscious and nonconscious processing. show less

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J. Mark G. Williams, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on how best to alleviate depression and suicidality. Previous publications include Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World (2011) and The Mindful Way through show more Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (2007). Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine Emeritus, and Founder of MBSR and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA. He teaches mindfulness meditation as a technique to help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain and illness. Previous publications include Mindfulness for Beginnners: Reclaiming the Present Moment - and Your Life (2012) and Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: One Hundred Lessons in Mindfulness (2009). show less
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Original title
Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders
Original publication date
1988
Original language
English
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2nd ed. (1997) has significant updates from original.

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616.85Applied science & technologyMedicine & healthDiseases, Allergies, Skin ConditionsNervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCDMiscellaneous
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RC537 .C624MedicineInternal medicineInternal medicineNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryPsychiatryPsychopathologyNeuroses
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