K C van den Berg, M Voncken, A T Hendrickson, M Di Simplicio, E J Regeer, L Rops, G P J Keijsers
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: CBT for patients with bipolar disorder has modest effects. Across disorders, mental imagery has been used to update CBT to increase effectiveness. In order to enhance CBT for bipolar disorder with imagery techniques, research is needed into emotional imagery quality and, related appraisals of imagery and their relationships with mood instability and subsequent behaviour in bipolar disorder. METHODS: Patients with bipolar disorder (n = 106), unipolar depression (n = 51), creative imagery prone participants (n = 53) and participants without a history of a mood disorder (n = 135) completed the Dutch Imagery Survey (DImS), an online imagery survey, adapted from the Imagery Interview, assessing self-reported emotional imagery aspects...
December 2023: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry