Depression and the Ironic Effects of Thought Suppression: Therapeutic Strategies for Improving Mental Control
By Christopher G. Beevers, R. Wenzlaff, Adele M. Hayes, Walter Scott. 2006
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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Attentional Bias and Mood Persistence as Prospective Predictors of Dysphoria (2003, background): “Trying to suppress unwanted thoughts and feelings has been shown to ironically amplify the very thoughts and feelings targeted for suppression (for a review, see Beevers, Wenzlaff, Hayes, & Scott, 1999; Wenzlaff & Wegner, 2000).”
- Cognitive Behavioural Processes Across Psychological Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach To Research And Treatment (2004, background): “Second, a number of studies have shown that increasing cognitive demands, such as trying to remember a 6-digit number, can increase the paradoxical effects of thought suppression (Wegner and Erber 1992; Wegner et al. 1993; Beevers et al. 1999).”
- The role of thought suppression in posttraumatic stress disorder (2005, unknown): “Several reviews of this literature have summarized findings to date ( Beevers, Wenzlaff, Hayes, & Scott, 1999; Purdon, 1999; Purdon & Clark, 2000; Rassin, Merckelbach, & Muris, 2000; Wenzlaff & Wegner, 2000).”
- Changes in Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation in an Exposure-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (2008, background): “Thought suppression (Beevers et al. 1999; Wenzlaff and Luxton 2003) and avoidant coping and problem solving (Ottenbreit and Dobson 2004) are attempts to regulate negative thoughts and emotions, but these strategies often exacerbate problems and contribute to depression.”
- Rethinking Rumination (2008, background): “Depressed individuals do engage in more suppression than do nondepressed ones (Beevers, Wenzlaff, Hayes, & Scott, 1999), but it is difficult to maintain.”
- Mindfulness for Long-Distance Runners: An Open Trial Using Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) (2009, background): “A review by Bishop (2002) concluded that MBSR is helpful in treating patients with physical ailments such as chronic pain (Kabat-Zinn, 1982) and fibromyalgia (Kaplan, Goldenberg, & GalvinNadeau, 1993).”