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ATTENTION AND EMOTION This is a Classic Edition of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews’ award- winning textb ook on attent ion and emotion, which now includes a new introd uct ion. The book won the British Psychological Society book award in 1998, and is now widely seen as a classic in the fi eld of emotional disorders. Attention and Emotion: a clinical perspective crit ic ally reviews the liter at ure on attent ion and emotion, and offers an integ rat ive cognit ive atten tional model of the devel op ment and maint ena nce of emotional disorders. The authors also discuss the implic a tions for clin ical prac tice of attent ional theor ies of emotional dysfunc tion. In the new intro duct ion, the authors refl ect on the infl ue nce of their ground- break ing model and the subsequent devel op ments in the fi eld, 20 years since the book was fi rst published. The book will continue to be essen- tial reading for students, researche rs and profes siona ls with an interest in disorders of attent ion and emotion. Adrian Wells is Professor of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests are in the areas of cognit ive theory and therapy and emotional disorders. He has made major contri but ions to treatm ents for anxiety disorders and he is the origina tor of Metacognitive Therapy (MCT). His treat ments are included in NHS NICE guidelines. Gerald Matthews is Research Professor at the Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, USA. His research focuses on human factors, cognit ive models of person ali ty and indiv idual differ ences, and task- induced states of stress and fatigue. 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Greenfi eld This page intentionally left blank ATTENTION AND EMOTION A clinical perspective Classic Edition Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews Classic edition published 2015 by Psychology Press 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA and by Psychology Press 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Psychology Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa busi ness © 2015 Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews The right of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews to be ident ifi ed as the author of this Work has been asser ted by him/her in accorda nce with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprin ted or repro duced or util ised in any form or by any elec tronic, mech an ical, or other means, now known or here after inven ted, includ ing photo copy ing and record ing, or in any inform at ion storage or retrieval system, without permis sion in writing from the publishe rs. Trademark notice: Product or corpor ate names may be trade marks or registered trade marks, and are used only for iden tifi ca t ion and explana t ion without intent to infringe. First edition published by Routledge 1994 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A cata logue record for this book is avail able from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Wells, Adrian. Attention and emotion : a clinical perspective / Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews. — Classic edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Attention. 2. Emotions. 3. Personality disorders. 4. Mental illness. 5. Psychology, Pathological. I. Matthews, Gerald. II. Title. RC455.4.A85W45 2015 616.89—dc23 2014025587 ISBN: 978–1–138–81483–7 (hbk) ISBN: 978–1–138–81484–4 (pbk) ISBN: 978–1–315–74718–7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk In memory of Christine Johnson This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgements xiii Introduction to the Classic Edition: A brief history of developments xiv 1 Introduction: Cognitive theory of emotional disorders 1 Beck’s cognit ive theory 2 The role of behav iour in cognit ive theory 5 Cognitive model of panic 7 Clinical models and scientifi c theory 7 Experimental psychol ogy of atten tion and emotion 8 Plan of the book 13 PART I Emotion, atten tion and inform a tion processing 15 2 Attention: Basic conceptual and theoretical issues 17 The search for a bottlen eck 18 Capacity models of atten tion 21 Levels of control of attent ion 25 Connectionism and attent ion 33 Conclusions 36 3 Attention: Selection of complex, personally signifi cant and emotional stimuli 39 Selection by schemas 39
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