Imagery Rescripting Social Anxiety. Evidence suggests that negative self imagery plays an important role in social anxiety disorder sad as a maintaining. Imagery rescripting ir is a technique in which patients are guided to re imagine past negative experiences to meet the needs of the younger self within the memory.
It s important to deal with these memories because you carry an image of yourself based on what happened in the past. Imagery rescripting was superior to a control condition in terms of its beneficial effects on negative beliefs image and memory distress fear of negative evaluation and anxiety in social situations. Ir led to reductions on distress associated with memories and recurrent catastrophic images.
We studied the effects of imagery rescripting ir of early traumatic memories in social anxiety disorder.
1 kognio centre for cbt lund sweden. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of ir. Nilsson je 1 lundh lg viborg g. Imagery rescripting of early memories in social anxiety disorder.