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Imagining as an Observer: Manipulating Visual Perspective in Obsessional Imagery

verfasst von: Jessica R. Grisham, Savannah Minihan, Caleb J. Winch

Erschienen in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Ausgabe 4/2019

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Abstract

Mental images may be experienced in field (first-person) or observer (third-person) perspective. Compared to field, observer perspective has been shown to be less sensorially and emotionally evocative. Previous research suggested that images in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) are predominately experienced in field perspective. We examined the impact of visual perspective on response to intrusive obsessional images, using autobiographical memory images as a control stimulus. Undergraduates (N = 153) imagined idiosyncratic obsessional scenarios and negative memories from their natural visual perspective, then re-imagined them from a field or observer perspective. At baseline, field perspective was positively associated with vividness and distress and OCD symptoms were associated with an observer perspective. Participants shifted to observer perspective reported reduced vividness of the obsessional image, whereas those shifted to field reported increased anxiety associated with the obsessional image. Memories showed a similar, but not identical, pattern of results. We discuss implications for imagery in OCD.

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Titel: Imagining as an Observer: Manipulating Visual Perspective in Obsessional Imagery
verfasst von: Jessica R. Grisham
Savannah Minihan
Caleb J. Winch
Publikationsdatum: 14.02.2019
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Ausgabe 4/2019
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-019-10005-2

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