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Journal article
Emotional and non‐emotional mental imagery and auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices): A systematic review of imagery assessment tools
Clinical psychology and psychotherapy, Vol.31(1), e2920
2023
Abstract
It is unknown to what extent mental imagery and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are related. Trials evaluating this issue used both emotional and non‐emotional mental imagery tools, thereby complicating outcomes comparisons. Therefore, the present study aimed to systematically review the literature on mental imagery in individuals with AVHs to (1) inventory imagery assessment tools used in this population, (2) to collect information on the relation between emotional and non‐emotional mental imagery in all sensory domains and AVHs and (3) to integrate the outcomes of this systematic review in a model of different mental imagery domains and related assessment tools. We conducted a systematic literature search in the PubMed Database. After full‐text screening, 17 papers were included. Findings showed that a variety of assessment methods have been used to assess various aspects of mental imagery in people with AVHs, suggesting that there is a lack of agreed theoretical conceptualization of mental imagery and AVHs. In addition, the studies confirmed as was expected that non‐emotional mental imagery seemed unrelated to AVHs whereas emotional mental imagery was related to AVHs. Lastly, we proposed a model of mental imagery domains and corresponding assessment methods distinguishing between emotional and non‐emotional mental imagery.
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- Title
- Emotional and non‐emotional mental imagery and auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices): A systematic review of imagery assessment tools
- Authors/Creators
- Hella Janssen - Maastricht UniversityKarin C. van den Berg - Maastricht UniversityGeorgie Paulik - Murdoch UniversityKatherine Newman-Taylor - University of SouthamptonChristopher D. J. Taylor - Pennine Care NHS Foundation TrustCraig Steel - Oxford Health NHS Foundation TrustGer P. J. Keijsers - Maastricht UniversityMachteld C. Marcelis - Maastricht University
- Publication Details
- Clinical psychology and psychotherapy, Vol.31(1), e2920
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991005616270007891
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Authors.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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