Mental imagery in emotion and emotional disorders.

Journal article

Mental imagery has been considered relevant to psychopathology due to its supposed special relationship with emotion, although evidence for this assumption has been conspicuously lacking. The present review is divided into four main sections: (1) First, we review evidence that imagery can evoke emotion in at least three ways: a direct influence on emotional systems in the brain that are responsive to sensory signals; overlap between processes involved in mental imagery and perception which ca...

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Authors: Holmes, E; Mathews, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Clinical psychology review
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 349-362
• Publication date: 2010-04-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2010.01.001
• EISSN: 1873-7811
• ISSN: 0272-7358
• Language: English
• Keywords: Mental Recall; Mood Disorders; Brain; Humans; Psychotherapy; Language; Emotions; Imagery (Psychotherapy)