Emotional Changes during Imagery Rescripting of Aversive Social Memories in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Imagery rescripting (ImRs) is a psychotherapeutic intervention targeting aversive memories. During the three-phase intervention, patients reexperience their aversive memory (phase 1), observe the scene from their adult perspective, and intervene to help their former selves (phase 2), and reexperience it again with the positive changes (phase 3). Previous studies have rarely investigated emotional and regulatory processes taking place during the intervention.

Objective

This randomized controlled trial investigated self-reported affective and physiological responses during ImRs.

Methods

Seventy-seven patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) were randomly assigned to a single session of ImRs or a control intervention (recall and discussion of the memory)

SUBMITTER: Seinsche RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11332311 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature