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Cognition, Affect, and Psychopathology

Cognition, Affect, and Psychopathology Abstract The relationship of cognition to affect in normal subjects is similar to that observed in psychopathological states. Among normals the sequence perception-cognition-emotion is dictated largely by the demand character of the stimulus situation. In psychopathological conditions, the reaction to the stimulus situation is determined to a much greater extent by internal processes. The affective response is likely to be excessive or inappropriate because of the idiosyncratic conceptualization of the event. The input from the external situation is molded to conform to the typical schemas activated in these conditions. As a result, interpretations of experience embody arbitrary judgments, overgeneralizations, and distortions. Perserverative conceptualizations relevant to danger, loss, unjustified attack, and self-enhancement are typical of anxiety neuroses, depression, paranoid states, and hypomanic states, respectively. References 1. Menninger K: The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness . New York, Viking Press Inc, 1963. 2. Bucknill JC, Tuke DH: A Manual of Psychological Medicine . London, Churchill, 1879. 3. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association 1968, p 35. 4. Gregory I: Fundamentals of Psychiatry . Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1968. 5. Kolb LC: Noyes' Modern Clinical Psychiatry . Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1968. 6. Beck AT: Thinking and depression: I. Idiosyncratic content and cognitive distortions . Arch Gen Psychiat 9:324-333, 1963.Crossref 7. Arnold MB: Emotion and Personality . New York, Columbia University Press, 1960. 8. Lazarus RS: Psychological Stress and the Coping Process . New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co Inc, 1966. 9. Valins S: Cognitive effects of false heart-rate feedback . J Pers Soc Psychol 4:400-408, 1966.Crossref 10. Kasanin JS: Language and Thought in Schizophrenia . Berkeley, University of California Press, 1944. 11. Lewis NDC, Piotrowski ZS: Clinical diagnosis of manic depressive psychosis , in Hoch PH, Zubin J (eds): Depression . New York, Grune & Stratton Inc, 1954, pp 25-38. 12. Loeb A, Beck AT, Diggory JC: Differential effects of success and failure on depressed and nondepressed patients . J Nerv Ment Dis 152:106-114, 1971.Crossref 13. Seligman MEP, Maier SF, Solomon RL: Uncontrollable and Unpredictable trauma , in Brush FR (ed): Aversive Conditioning and Learning . New York, Academic Press Inc, to be published. 14. Beck AT: Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects . New York, Paul B Hoeber Inc, Medical Bk Dept of Harper & Row, 1967. 15. Schachter S, Singer JE: Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of emotional state . Psychol Rev 69:379-399, 1962.Crossref 16. Beck AT: Cognitive theory: Nature and relation to behavior therapy . Behavior Therapy 1:184-200, 1970.Crossref http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of General Psychiatry American Medical Association

Cognition, Affect, and Psychopathology

Beck, Aaron T.
Archives of General Psychiatry , Volume 24 (6) – Jun 1, 1971
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Abstract The relationship of cognition to affect in normal subjects is similar to that observed in psychopathological states. Among normals the sequence perception-cognition-emotion is dictated largely by the demand character of the stimulus situation. In psychopathological conditions, the reaction to the stimulus situation is determined to a much greater extent by internal processes. The affective response is likely to be excessive or inappropriate because of the idiosyncratic conceptualization of the event. The input from the external situation is molded to conform to the typical schemas activated in these conditions. As a result, interpretations of experience embody arbitrary judgments, overgeneralizations, and distortions. Perserverative conceptualizations relevant to danger, loss, unjustified attack, and self-enhancement are typical of anxiety neuroses, depression, paranoid states, and hypomanic states, respectively. References 1. Menninger K: The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness . New York, Viking Press Inc, 1963. 2. Bucknill JC, Tuke DH: A Manual of Psychological Medicine . London, Churchill, 1879. 3. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association 1968, p 35. 4. Gregory I: Fundamentals of Psychiatry . Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1968. 5. Kolb LC: Noyes' Modern Clinical Psychiatry . Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1968. 6. Beck AT: Thinking and depression: I. Idiosyncratic content and cognitive distortions . Arch Gen Psychiat 9:324-333, 1963.Crossref 7. Arnold MB: Emotion and Personality . New York, Columbia University Press, 1960. 8. Lazarus RS: Psychological Stress and the Coping Process . New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co Inc, 1966. 9. Valins S: Cognitive effects of false heart-rate feedback . J Pers Soc Psychol 4:400-408, 1966.Crossref 10. Kasanin JS: Language and Thought in Schizophrenia . Berkeley, University of California Press, 1944. 11. Lewis NDC, Piotrowski ZS: Clinical diagnosis of manic depressive psychosis , in Hoch PH, Zubin J (eds): Depression . New York, Grune & Stratton Inc, 1954, pp 25-38. 12. Loeb A, Beck AT, Diggory JC: Differential effects of success and failure on depressed and nondepressed patients . J Nerv Ment Dis 152:106-114, 1971.Crossref 13. Seligman MEP, Maier SF, Solomon RL: Uncontrollable and Unpredictable trauma , in Brush FR (ed): Aversive Conditioning and Learning . New York, Academic Press Inc, to be published. 14. Beck AT: Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects . New York, Paul B Hoeber Inc, Medical Bk Dept of Harper & Row, 1967. 15. Schachter S, Singer JE: Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of emotional state . Psychol Rev 69:379-399, 1962.Crossref 16. Beck AT: Cognitive theory: Nature and relation to behavior therapy . Behavior Therapy 1:184-200, 1970.Crossref

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