Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders

Focusing on clinical emotional disorders, the book examines the application of experimental paradigms and theoretical frameworks from contemporary academic cognitive psychology. The book reviews theoretical experimental aspects of the application of cognitive psychology to the understanding of emotional disorders. Cognitive approaches to emotional disorders are now common in clinical psychology, but abnormalities in cognitive processing are still not well understood. This is the first, comprehensive, book-length review of recent work on cognitive psychology of emotional disorders, many aspects of which (eg the effects of mood on memory) have attracted widespread interest. Much of the book is concerned with results obtained with objective, experimental paradigms that do not suffer from the methodological weaknesses of the self-report approaches on which most clinical research is based.