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The relevance of maintaining and worsening processes in psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Francesco Mancini  and
Amelia Gangemi
Francesco Mancini
Affiliation:
Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva (SPC), 00185 Rome, Italy. mancini@apc.it
Amelia Gangemi
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, 98122 Messina, Italy. gangemia@unime.it
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Abstract

The states called “psychopathology” are very diverse, but Lane et al.'s single-process explanation does little to account for this diversity. Moreover, some other crucial phenomena of psychopathology do not fit this theory: the role of negative evaluations of conscious emotions, and the role of emotions without physiological correlates. And it does not consider the processes maintaining disorders.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e14
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