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"Imagery is currently a hot topic in the research and practice of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and this excellent book will stimulate further interest in understanding mental imagery and how we can make use of it in therapy." - Jon Wheatley, Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy, Vol 39, 2011
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Imagery is important in cognitive therapy because images often trigger strong emotions, and imagery techniques such as imaginal reliving and imaginal rescripting are increasingly used in therapeutic treatments. Imagery and the Threatened Self considers the role that images of the self play in a number of common mental health problems and how these images can be used to help people to recover.
Stopa and her contributors focus specifically on images of the self which are often negative and distorted and can contribute to both the cause and the progression of clinical disorders. The book includes chapters on current theories of the self and on imagery techniques used in therapy, alongside chapters that examine the role of self-images and how images can be used in the treatment of disorders including:
- social phobia
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- eating disorders
- depression
- bipolar disorder.
Imagery and the Threatened Self is an original and innovative book that will appeal to both clinicians and students who are studying and practising cognitive therapy.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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CBT has come a long way since 1979 when Beck's groundbreaking book on treating depression appeared. CBT has established itself as the most effective therapy for a range of conditions, and one of its great strengths is that it is always evolving. We've discovered that challenging negative thoughts verbally may not be particularly effective or even necessary for many clients. We've discovered that changing our relationship to the contents of cognition is often crucial, rather than changing particular thoughts. According to Steven Hayes among others, we're now in the Third Wave of cognitive therapies, where methods such as mindfulness practice seem perfectly at home within CBT's broad church.
Dr Lusia Stopa's CBT credentials are firmly rooted in the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre orthodoxy. Like others there, she's been endlessly curious about how to approach client's problems in novel ways, and has long been intrigued by the potential clinical power of image transformation. Dr Ann Hackman at Oxford has written and presented workshops on working with imagery in CBT for years, and has inspired many of us to experiment with imagery work in our clinical practice. What we have lacked though is a sound textbook rich in theory-practice links to enrich our understanding. This book offers interested clinicians a thorough introduction to the whole topic of working with images in CBT.
The topics covered offer innovative treatment ideas to clinicians working in a wide range of disorders, from social anxiety to bipolar disorder. Imagery rescripting, which has drawn together key researchers within CBT, and is currently producing very encouraging results in clinical trials is described in several chapters, but will hopefully have a chapter by Smucker in the next edition, along with one on imagery and schema change. I particularly enjoyed Stopa's exploration of imagery and threatened self in Chapter 1, and also her comprehensive overview of clinical approaches that work on images in Chapter 3. The chapters on agoraphobia and PTSD are very helpful indeed. Paul Gilbert's chapter on how to help clients develop compassionate mind using compassionate imagery is excellent and inspiring.
In conclusion, if you're looking for one book that will teach you a great deal about using imagery in CBT, and bring you up to date with research and clinical approaches in the area then this is it. Dr Stopa's writing and editorial skills are superb.
Dr Lusia Stopa's CBT credentials are firmly rooted in the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre orthodoxy. Like others there, she's been endlessly curious about how to approach client's problems in novel ways, and has long been intrigued by the potential clinical power of image transformation. Dr Ann Hackman at Oxford has written and presented workshops on working with imagery in CBT for years, and has inspired many of us to experiment with imagery work in our clinical practice. What we have lacked though is a sound textbook rich in theory-practice links to enrich our understanding. This book offers interested clinicians a thorough introduction to the whole topic of working with images in CBT.
The topics covered offer innovative treatment ideas to clinicians working in a wide range of disorders, from social anxiety to bipolar disorder. Imagery rescripting, which has drawn together key researchers within CBT, and is currently producing very encouraging results in clinical trials is described in several chapters, but will hopefully have a chapter by Smucker in the next edition, along with one on imagery and schema change. I particularly enjoyed Stopa's exploration of imagery and threatened self in Chapter 1, and also her comprehensive overview of clinical approaches that work on images in Chapter 3. The chapters on agoraphobia and PTSD are very helpful indeed. Paul Gilbert's chapter on how to help clients develop compassionate mind using compassionate imagery is excellent and inspiring.
In conclusion, if you're looking for one book that will teach you a great deal about using imagery in CBT, and bring you up to date with research and clinical approaches in the area then this is it. Dr Stopa's writing and editorial skills are superb.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The previous review is excellent. It heralds an exciting new direction for CBT with it's appreciation and validation of the import of mental imagery in human cognition and its role in psychopathology. Building on the innovative empirical research of Holmes and Hackmann and the centrality of imagery and memory in PTSD and Social Phobia the book provides an overview of excellent research on disorder specific imagery and therapeutic developments using imagery. Why then only 3 out 5? Well in my humble opinion I am getting a little peeved by the lack of acknowledgement of previous therapeutic concepts and interventions that either belong within a different therapeutic theoretical framework or form part of the rich history of psychotherapy. The book chapters understandably emphasise prior research within CBT but neglects and is relatively source amnesic in the references and acknowledgements of previous work on imagery and therapeutic interventions using imagery in the field of therapy. There is one brief mention of the influence of Pierre Janet, 'hypnotic' techniques and brief acknowledgement in a later chapter on the response and therapeutic working with patients made imagery and artefacts of Art Therapy. Sometimes CBT as a therapy acts like a magpie which steals all that glitters in other therapeutic domains, reframes them and re-labels and re-markets using the conceptual tools and language of cognitive psychology, bit like developing a new 'brand'. Is this politically motivated or just hubris? In a sense by not acknowledging the context, particularly working therapeutically with images whether in 'reliving' 'rescripting', these old techniques do seem fresh and innovative and it is good to see CBT shift into this field.
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