Intrusive unwanted thoughts: A two‐stage model of control
Authors:
- Mark DickersonMDMark Dickerson
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
- Vol. 60 (4) , 317-328
Abstract
It was proposed that the greater time taken to dismiss intrusive compared with neutral thoughts is better explained in terms of a decreased ability to disattend to the intrusive thought than a decreased ability to access a more pleasant replacement thought. A study of 43 subjects with ‘normal obsessions’ using a methodology that controlled the valence and content of replacement thoughts provided support for this disattention hypothesis.Keywords
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