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Contextualisation in the revised dual representation theory of PTSD: A response to Pearson and colleagues

Brewin, CR; Burgess, N; (2014) Contextualisation in the revised dual representation theory of PTSD: A response to Pearson and colleagues. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry , 45 (1) 217 - 219. 10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.07.011. Green open access

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Abstract

Three recent studies (Pearson, 2012; Pearson, Ross, & Webster, 2012) purported to test the revised dual representation theory of posttraumatic stress disorder (Brewin, Gregory, Lipton, & Burgess, 2010) by manipulating the amount of additional information accompanying traumatic stimulus materials and assessing the effect on subsequent intrusive memories. Here we point out that these studies involve a misunderstanding of the meaning of " contextual" within the theory, such that the manipulation would be unlikely to have had the intended effect and the results are ambiguous with respect to the theory. Past and future experimental tests of the theory are discussed. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Type: Article
Title: Contextualisation in the revised dual representation theory of PTSD: A response to Pearson and colleagues
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.07.011
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.07.011
Additional information: © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: PTSD; Memory; Context; Intrusion;
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1417598
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