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Papers about aphantasia and mental imagery, with summaries in plain words. The summaries are generated by AI and may contain errors.
Blackwell · International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
This review looks at mental imagery in cognitive behavioral therapy research and practice: as a research tool, in everyday memory and planning, in the distressing images found across mental health problems, and in treatments such as imaginal exposure and imagery rescripting. It argues that clinicians and researchers should keep imagery in mind and ask about it, while noting that many patients and therapists experience little imagery and do not find it a useful tool in therapy. It mentions aphantasia only briefly, as one way to learn what imagery does by studying people who lack it.
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