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www.psychlotron.org.uk. www.psychlotron.org.uk. Cognition. Real World. Thinking. Perception. Information. Emotion. Behaviour. Behaviour. The Cognitive Model. www.psychlotron.org.uk. Cognition & Depression. www.psychlotron.org.uk.
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Cognition Real World Thinking Perception Information Emotion Behaviour Behaviour The Cognitive Model www.psychlotron.org.uk
Cognition & Depression www.psychlotron.org.uk • Depression results from systematic negative bias in thinking processes • Emotional, behavioural (and physical?) symptoms result from cognitive abnormality • Depressed cognitive triad • Silent assumptions • Faulty thinking strategies
The Self Experiences The Future Depressed Cognitive Triad www.psychlotron.org.uk
Silent Assumptions www.psychlotron.org.uk • Grounding assumptions operating an a semi-conscious level: • ‘I must get people’s approval’ • ‘I must do things perfectly’ • ‘I must always be valued by others’ • ‘The world must be fair and just’
Faulty Thinking www.psychlotron.org.uk • Systematic negative bias in information processing: • Arbitrary inference • Selective thinking • Overgeneralisation • Catastrophising • Personalising • Black and white thinking
Cognition & Depression www.psychlotron.org.uk • Some hypotheses: • Depressed patients think differently to clinically normal people • Changes in thinking precede the onset of depressed mood • Changing thinking patterns can reduce or remove depressed symptoms (NB treatment-aetiology fallacy)