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121 ABSTRACT: In this article we focus on hypomania and mania in bipolar disorder and, in all probability, only in some types of bipolar disorder. We deal with positive emotions, whose psychopathogenic role still receives too little attention in experimental and clinical psychology. We propose a hypothesis with regard to the psychological mechanisms involved in hypomanic and manic decompensation that posits in primis the ... Journal Article: Rivista di Psichiatria, 56 (6), pp. 317-323, 2019. |
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133 ABSTRACT: Abstract Objective Fear of recurrence is a crucial issue in cancer care. On the one hand, the increase of cancer‐survival rates and complexity of care is exposing patients to this type of fear. On the other hand, it is a distressing and recurrent psychosocial risk that affects quality of life and adherence to follow‐up. Patients should have access to targeted psychological interventions aimed at reducing or ... Journal Article: Psycho‐Oncology, 2019. |
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2018 | |
346 ABSTRACT: In literature nothing is known about the clinical significance of Ultra High Risk (UHR) symptoms in children and adolescents with diagnosis of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). In this study, we examined the prevalence of UHR symptoms and their relationship with severity of obsessive–compulsive symptomatology, global, social, and role functioning, and level of associated depressive symptoms in a clinical ... Journal Article: Brain Sciences, 8 (10), 2018. |
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469 ABSTRACT: The present work is the first of a trilogy of articles whose purpose, as a whole, is to present a theoretical conceptualization of OCD functioning, which results from the integration between the Cognitive Therapy model, as proposed by Mancini (2018), and the Schema Therapy Mode model. In particular, this first paper aims to synthetically present the cognitive model of OCD functioning. According to the frame offered ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2261-2277, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. |
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481 ABSTRACT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been identified as the first choice treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Although a significant proportion of patients benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, another still fails to respond to CBT. To improve outcomes, new targets of intervention have been broadened, but no clear and comprehensive conceptualizations of the disorder have been suggested. In the last ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2278-2295, 2018, ISBN: 2152-7199. |
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434 ABSTRACT: This final article is part of the trilogy presenting a possible integration of Schema Therapy (ST) and Cognitive Therapy (CT) in Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment. It aims at describing how experiential and cognitive based acceptance techniques might be applied to treat this psychopathological condition. In the first article published in this special issue ( Luppino et al., 2018 ) we reported the main ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2296-2311, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. |
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381 ABSTRACT: Literature reviews have shown that trait-mindfulness is significantly correlated to emotional wellbeing, both in adults and in children. Particularly, being judgemental towards one's inner thoughts, feelings and sensations, and acting unawares, is associated with higher maladjustment. In the present cross-sectional study, we explored the role of the different facets of mindfulness in both anxiety and depression, ... Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 138 (2019), pp. 33-39, 2018. |
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275 Moral Judgment and empathic/Deontological Guilt ABSTRACT: People often make complicated decisions to help or to punish perfect strangers. Harming someone or breaking some moral imperative is usually linked to feeling guilt, and several researches suggested the existence of two different kinds of guilt: altruistic/empathic and deontological. Aim Our study aimed to investigate the decision-making processes in moral and nonmoral judgments and assess how specific ...Journal Article: Psychological Reports, pp. 1-17, 2018. |
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619 I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! ABSTRACT: The emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy participants were ...Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2018. |
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0 I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! ABSTRACT: The emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy participants were ...Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 20 , pp. 21-29, 2018. |
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0 Fairness is a more effective interpersonal motive than care for sustaining prosocial behaviour ABSTRACT: The present study stems from three general assumptions about prosocial behav-iour: a) that it has an evolutionary foundation; b) that it is sensitive to the inter-personal context in which it takes place; and c) that it can be supported by different values and motives. An experiment based on the Dictator Game (DG) was carried out, in which two groups of participants with different Social Values Orientation (SVO) ...Journal Article: Psychology, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. |
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646 Investigating schema therapy constructs in individuals with depression ABSTRACT: Background: Schema Therapy (ST) has been applied to several psychological disorders. The aim of this study was to further corroborate Renner’s ST model for depression (2012), investigating maladaptive schemas, modes, and avoidant coping styles in a large non-clinical sample and in two sub-groups of subjects with high and low depression rates. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analyses were run on ...Journal Article: Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, 9 (2), pp. 214-221, 2018. |
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711 ABSTRACT: Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) is a therapeutic technique that aims to reduce the distress associated with negative memories of early aversive experiences. It consists of prompting patients to rescript the autobiographical memory in line with their unmet needs. In recent years, ImRs was found effective in reducing symptoms of disorders such as depression, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic ... Journal Article: frontiers in Psychology, 9 (581), 2018. |
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385 ABSTRACT: Despite strong support for the effects of emotion regulation strategies (ERS) for maintenance of psychopathology, little is known about mechanisms involved in the use of maladaptive ERS, as people beliefs about their emotions. This review aims to understand the characteristics of the link between emotion beliefs and emotion regulation processes. First of all, the review examines main theories, researches, measures ... Journal Article: Giornale italiano di Psicologia, pp. 187-216, 2018, ISSN: 0390-5349. |
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0 ABSTRACT: Objective: The close link between obsessive symptomatology, guilt and inflated responsibility is well documented, although one might suppose that guilt sensitiveness and dysfunctional beliefs about responsibility are rooted further in time. imagery with rescripting (iwr) is an emotion-focused technique that binds actual stressful emotions to past memories where similar feelings were activated. it is used to ... Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry , 15 (5), pp. 299-305, 2018. |
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427 ABSTRACT: Objective: The close link between obsessive symptomatology, guilt and inflated responsibility is well documented, although one might suppose that guilt sensitiveness and dysfunctional beliefs about responsibility are rooted further in time. imagery with rescripting (iwr) is an emotion-focused technique that binds actual stressful emotions to past memories where similar feelings were activated. it is used to change ... Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry , 15 (5), pp. 299-305, 2018. |
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11 RELIABILITY, VALIDITY AND FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE COMPULSIVE ACQUISITION SCALE (CAS) ABSTRACT: Objective: Much research and theorizing suggest that compulsive acquisition is a central component of hoarding disease. The Compulsive Acquisition Scale (CAS; Frost et al. 2002) is a self-rating scale measuring the extent to which individuals acquire and feel compelled to acquire possessions. The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the CAS, in terms of reliability and construct ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 15 , 2018. |
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321 Journal Article: Neuropsychologia, 2018. |
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2017 | |
859 Romanian immigrants in Italy: mental healt and potential protective and vulnerability factors ABSTRACT: We investigated the mental health, in terms of reported Axis I psychiatric symptoms, of a sample of Romanian Immigrants in Italy, using the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire (PDSQ). Moreover, we explored the association between psychological distress or specific disorders and a few demographic and cultural variables connected to the immigration process and identified as possible vulnerability/protective ...Journal Article: Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 59 , pp. 21-33, 2017, ISSN: 1584-5397. |
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1003 ABSTRACT: Several studies and clinical observations support the hypothesis that the obsessive activity is intended to prevent the possibility of being guilty, experience judged intolerable and unacceptable from such patients. This study fits into this line of research. Starting from the evidence that in most anxiety disorders there was a selective attention directed towards the stimuli inherent threat feared, we expected to ... Journal Article: Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, (41), 2017. |
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825 ABSTRACT: Lo studio scientifico del perdono ha avuto inizio a partire dagli anni '80 del secolo scorso. La letteratura scientifica comprende ormai una mole molto ampia di ricerche sul perdono, lavori correlazionali, longitudinali e sperimentali. Una serie di studi correlazionali dimostra elevata correlazione negativa tra perdono e dimensioni di sofferenza psicologica: le persone che tendono a perdonare di più sono anche meno ... Journal Article: Rassegna di Psicologia, XXXIV (3), pp. 55-66, 2017, ISSN: 1125-5196. |
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1308 Schema Therapy mode model applied to OCD ABSTRACT: Objective: Schema Therapy (ST) places particular emphasis on affective experiences, therapeutic relationship and early life experiences. Ad hoc ST conceptualizations for specific psychological conditions, mainly focusing on personality disorders, have been suggested in the last decade. The aim of this study was to explore schemas, modes and coping styles in outpatients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 14 (6), pp. 407-414, 2017. |
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950 ABSTRACT: Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events, although little is known about how pre-adolescents may beneft from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control ... Journal Article: Terapia psicológica, 35 (3), pp. 213-222, 2017, ISSN: 0716-6184. |
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 | 941 Obsessive patients and deontological guilt: a review ABSTRACT: In line with the Appraisal Theories of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in this review we present some experiments aimed at demonstrating the role of fear of guilt in OCD. What kind of guilt do OC patients want to prevent? Several studies suggest the existence of two different types of guilt emotions, namely deontological guilt and altruistic guilt. This research suggests that the former, more than the latter, ...Journal Article: Psychopathology Review, 4 (2), pp. 155-168, 2017, ISSN: 2051-8315. |
776 Forgiveness and religious practice: a study on a sample of Italian preadolescents ABSTRACT: In this study we examined the gender differences in self-reported forgiving behaviours in a sample of Italian preadolescents (aged 11 to 14 years), who were either involved or not involved in religious practises. Were asked 289 Catholic, Italian preadolescent students were asked about their involvement in the religious practises. They also completed measures of forgiveness, avoidance and revenge motivations. The ...Journal Article: Journal of Beliefs & Values, 0 (0), pp. 1-10, 2017. |
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840 ABSTRACT: Extensive research has implicated identification with characters in mass media in the emergence of disordered eating behavior in adolescents. We explored the possible influence of the models offered by television (TV) on adolescents’ body image, body uneasiness, eating-disordered behavior, depression, and anxiety. Methods: Three hundred and one adolescents (aged 14-19) from southern Italy participated. They ... Journal Article: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2017. |
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2016 | |
678 “Don’t Play God!”: Is inaction Preference linked to obsessive compulsive characteristics? ABSTRACT: Objective: two kinds of guilt feelings have been postulated: altruistic and deontological. the latter seems to play a role in the genesis and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive Disorder (ocD) and to be linked to inaction choice in moral dilemmas. This paper aims to investigate whether inaction choices in moral dilemmas are specifically linked to obsessive-compulsive (OC) characteristics and to deontological ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 13 (6), pp. 122-129, 2016. |
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1319 Specific Beliefs about Emotions Are Associated with Different Emotion-Regulation Strategies ABSTRACT: Despite evidence pointing to the associations of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (ERS) with psychopathology, little is known about their underlying mechanisms. Coherently with cognitive models, this study tested the hypothesis that specific beliefs about emotions may be associated with difficulties in emotion regulation and the use of different ERS (reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, ...Journal Article: Psychology, 7 , pp. 1682-1699, 2016, ISSN: 2152-7180. |
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1719 Reducing the meta-emotional problem decreases physiological fear response during exposure in phobics ABSTRACT: Anxiety disorders may not only be characterized by specific symptomatology (e.g., tachycardia) in response to the fearful stimulus (primary problem or first-level emotion) but also by the tendency to negatively evaluate oneself for having those symptoms (secondary problem or negative meta-emotion). An exploratory study was conducted driven by the hypothesis that reducing the secondary or meta-emotional problem would ...Journal Article: Frontiers in psychology, (7), pp. 1105, 2016, ISSN: 1664-1078. |
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 | 60 Sulla necessità degli scopi come determinanti prossimi della sofferenza psicopatologica ABSTRACT: In this article one of the most signifi cant limits of Clinical Cognitivism is highlighted: the scarce relevance attributed to “goals” in explaining psychopathology. In the standard Clinical Cognitivism the role of beliefs and cognitive processes is highly stressed, while the role of goals in orienting the cognitive processes, and thus, in the development and maintenance of beliefs, is neglected. It is, in ...Journal Article: 13 (1), pp. 7-20, 2016. |
118 Association between Attention and Heart Rate Fluctuations in Pathological Worriers ABSTRACT: Recent data suggests that several psychopathological conditions are associated with alterations in the variability of behavioral and physiological responses. Pathological worry, defined as the cognitive representation of a potential threat, has been associated with reduced variability of heart beat oscillations (i.e., decreased heart rate variability; HRV) and lapses of attention indexed by reaction times (RTs). ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10 , pp. 648, 2016, ISSN: 1662-5161. |
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3232 L’utilizzo della mindfulness con gli adolescenti ABSTRACT: Negli ultimi anni l’utilizzo della mindfulness per il trattamento di problemi psicologici in eta evolutiva e andato significativamente incrementando: sia nei disturbi esternalizzanti che nei disturbi internalizzanti puo essere effettivamente utile addestrare i ragazzi a lasciar andare i propri contenuti mentali, siano essi pensieri depressivi, ansiosi, o aggressivi, una volta che sono comparsi alla mente. In ...Journal Article: QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA, (39), pp. 83-98, 2016, ISSN: 2281-6046. |
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811 Obsessive-compulsive disorder: the strength of psycological models of mental illness ABSTRACT: ...Journal Article: 13 (6), pp. 85-87, 2016. |
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1407 The two dimensions of the body representation in women suffering from Anorexia Nervosa ABSTRACT: A core symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe alteration of body representations. Evidence from somatoperception studies point to a generic disturbances of somatosensory components of body representations. Here we have investigated whether AN patients (N=18) and controls differed in the perception of tactile stimuli differently oriented along the body axes. We tested the hypothesis that patients perceive and ...Journal Article: Psychiatry Research, 230 (2), pp. 181-188, 2015, ISSN: 0165-1781. |
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1179 ABSTRACT: Objectives We aimed to clarify the associations between negative emotionality, avoidant coping, and alexithymia. We hypothesized that negative emotionality and avoidance strategies would interact negatively in associating with alexithymia. Design We examined, in one study conducted in Italy and another in the US (total N = 415), the associations among avoidant coping, negative emotionality, and alexithymia, ... Journal Article: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2015. |
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991 Family accommodation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a study on associated variables ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to examine family accommodation in relatives of obesessive-compulsive disease (OCD) patients. Accommodation was assessed in a sample of 31 relatives of OCD patients by means of the Family Accommodation Scale. Other variables measured as predictor of accommodation were tendency of a familymember to feel guilty, sensitivity to guilt, anxiety sensitivity and the prevalence of a passive ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 12 (5), pp. 128-134, 2015. |
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1301 Individual differences in guilt sensitivity scale (GSS) ABSTRACT: Individual differences can be observed in the propensity to experience certain emotions; for some emotions, most notably anxiety and disgust, the notion of sensitivity was also explored, namely one's tendency to evaluate negatively a given emotion and its effects. Based on observations made in the clinical practice, the authors suggest that this distinction may be usefully applied also to guilt, creating a specific ...Journal Article: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 22 (3), pp. 349-362, 2015. |
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 | 911 Do not play God: contrasting effects of deontological guilt and pride on decision-making ABSTRACT: Recent accounts support the existence of two distinct feelings of guilt: altruistic guilt, arising from the appraisal of not having been altruistic towards a victim and deontological guilt, emerging from the appraisal of having violated an intuitive moral rule. Neuroimaging data has shown that the two guilt feelings trigger different neural networks, with deontological guilt selectively activating the insula, a ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology, 6 , pp. 1251, 2015, ISSN: 1664-1078. |
809 An experimental re-examination of the inferential confusion hypothesis of obsessive–compulsive doubt ABSTRACT: AbstractBackground and objectives The inferential confusion hypothesis postulates that obsessive doubt is perpetuated by a subjective form of reasoning characterized primarily by a distrust of reality and an overreliance on imagined possibilities. However, experimental evidence for this hypothesis may be compromised by a potential confound between type of information (reality vs. possibility) and its valence (danger ...Journal Article: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 48 , pp. 90 - 97, 2015, ISSN: 0005-7916. |
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1021 Deontological guilt and obsessive compulsive disorder ABSTRACT: Background and objectives The emotion of guilt plays a pivotal role in the genesis and maintenance of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). But what kind of guilt do OC patients want to prevent? Several studies suggest the existence of two different types of guilt emotions, namely deontological and altruistic guilt. This research suggests that the former, more than the latter, is involved in OCD. Studies in which ...Journal Article: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 49, Part B , pp. 157 - 163, 2015, ISSN: 0005-7916, (Special Issue: Innovations in Understanding and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder). |
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967 Cognitive-behavioral therapy for externalizing disorders: A meta-analysis of treatment effectiveness ABSTRACT: Abstract Externalizing disorders are the most common and persistent forms of maladjustment in childhood. The aim of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis evaluating the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to reduce externalizing symptoms in two disorders: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositive Defiant Disorder (ODD). The efficacy of CBT to improve social competence and ...Journal Article: Behaviour Research and Therapy, 75 , pp. 60 - 71, 2015, ISSN: 0005-7967. |
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0 The relevance of maintaining and worsening processes in psychopathology ABSTRACT: ...Journal Article: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38 , 2015. |
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2014 | |
544 ABSTRACT: Many different and innovative neuroimaging techniques have been developed in the last decades. Functional neuroimaging allows detecting what is happening in our brain at rest or while performing a specific cognitive or emotional task, while structural methods are concerned with the physical organization of the brain, considering both micro- and macro-structural aspects. Starting from these recent developments, ... Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 11 (6), pp. 187-193, 2014. |
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874 Towards a deeper understanding of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ABSTRACT: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has been ranked by the World Health Organization as one of the ten most handicapping illnesses by lost income and decreased quality of life (Veale 2007). It is well known that the disorder is not limited to one culture or one period of time, since it has been found in different culture or one period of time, since it has been found in different cultures and in different parts of ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 11 (6), pp. 149-151, 2014. |
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856 Do we need a cognitive theory for obsessive-compulsive disorder? Yes, we do ABSTRACT: Nowadays a general trend in psychiatry and clinical psychology, claming to explain mental illness and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in particular as a neurological disease, seems to be in ascendant. The purpose of this position paper is to rebut this perspective on OCD and demonstrate that an Appraisal Theory (AT) of the disorder, is necessary and sufficient in order to account for proximal determinants in the ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 11 (6), pp. 197-203, 2014. |
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2437 ABSTRACT: Negli ultimi decenni si è arrivati a una comprensione sempre più accurata dello stato mentale che regola i pensieri e comportamenti ossessivi. Questa comprensione della complessa fenomenologia del disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo rischia di perdersi nel momento in cui, come fa il DSM-5 con l’introduzione della categoria disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo e disturbi correlati, si promuove una comprensione dei disturbi in ... Journal Article: Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 20 (3), pp. 281-293, 2014. |
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0 The Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3: Factor structure and psychometric properties in Italian clinical and non- clinical samples ABSTRACT: Lo studio descrive le caratteristiche psicometriche dell’Anxiety Sensitivity Index - 3 (ASI-3) che è stato tradotto in italiano con la procedura della back-translation e somministrato ad un campione misto di pazienti con disturbi d’ansia (n = 154) e soggetti non clinici (n = 629), assieme a misure di anxiety sensitivity, depressione e ansia. L’analisi fattoriale confermativa ha confermato la struttura con un ...Journal Article: Bollettino di Psicologia Applicata (BPA), (269), pp. 53-64, 2014. |
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1013 Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Theories ABSTRACT: The present review aimed to analyze the scientific literature untill 2010 about the theories of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in order to make clear how a biological and cognitive hypotheses might be integrated in a comprehensive point of view. In the analysis, at biological level were included neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic models and animal models; ...Journal Article: Global Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1 (1), pp. 1-13, 2014. |
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1052 Feelings of error in reasoning—in search of a phenomenon ABSTRACT: Recent research shows that in reasoning tasks, subjects usually produce an initial intuitive answer, accompanied by a metacognitive experience, which has been called feeling of rightness. This paper is aimed at exploring the complimentary experience of feeling of error (FOE), that is, the spontaneous, subtle sensation of cognitive uneasiness arising from conflict detection during thinking. We investigate FOE in two ...Journal Article: Thinking & Reasoning, 21 (4), pp. 383-396, 2014. |
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782 ABSTRACT: AbstractBackground Gangemi, Mancini, and van den Hout (2012) argued that anxious patients use safety behaviors as information that the situation in which the safety behaviors are displayed is dangerous, even when that situation is objectively safe. This was concluded from a vignette study in which anxious patients and non-clinical controls rated the dangerousness of scripts that were safe or dangerous and in which ... Journal Article: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45 (4), pp. 489 - 495, 2014, ISSN: 0005-7916. |
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