The usefulness of current psychiatric classification, which is based on ICD/DSM categorical
diagnoses, remains questionable. A promising alternative has been put forward as the …

Objective Social cognitive deficits can contribute to risk for depression and to psychosocial
impairment during depression. However, available evidence suggests that emotion …

There is now substantial evidence for Theory of mind (ToM) impairment in schizophrenia.
Despite this, we know little about how dynamic (state) variables and broad clinical, cognitive …

We completed a meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between delusions in
psychosis and 4 cognitive biases:“jumping to conclusions”(JTC), the “bias against …

Highly practical and accessible, this unique book gives therapists powerful tools for helping
patients learn to cope with feared or avoided emotional experiences. The book presents a …

Social cognitive impairments are common, detectable across a wide range of tasks, and
appear to play a key role in explaining poor outcome in schizophrenia and related psychotic …

Context Paranoid delusions are a common symptom of a range of psychotic disorders. A
variety of psychological mechanisms have been implicated in their cause, including a …

In schizophrenia, impairments of theory of mind (ToM) may be due to excessive
('overmentalizing') or defective ('undermentalizing') attribution of mental states. However …

Objectives. The evidence to date for a causal role of emotions in the generation of paranoid
symptoms is scarce, mainly because of a lack of studies investigating the longitudinal …

Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition-
put simply, thinking about one's own thought processes-limiting their abilities to recognize …