Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Emotional Disorder

The authors review research showing that when recalling autobiographical events, many emotionally disturbed patients summarize categories of events rather than retrieving a single episode. The mechanisms underlying such overgeneral memory are examined, with a focus on M. A. Conway and C. W. Pleydell...

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Published in:	Psychological bulletin 2007-01, Vol.133 (1), p.122-148
Main Authors:	Williams, J. Mark G, Barnhofer, Thorsten, Crane, Catherine, Hermans, Dirk, Raes, Filip, Watkins, Ed, Dalgleish, Tim
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Affective Disorders Anxiety disorders. Neuroses Autobiographical Memory Autobiographies Autobiographies as Topic Biological and medical sciences Cognitive Processes Cues Depression Emotional disorders Emotional Disturbances Emotions Generalization Human Humans Major Depression Medical sciences Memory Mental depression Mental illness Methodology Mnemonics Mood disorders Mood Disorders - psychology Patients Post traumatic stress disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Problem Solving Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Recall (Psychology) Regression analysis Self Specificity Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
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