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Intrusive unwanted thoughts: a two-stage model of control
1Department of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra.
The British Journal of Medical Psychology
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
It was proposed that the greater time taken to dismiss intrusive compared with neutral thoughts is better explained in terms of a decreased ability to disattend to the intrusive thought than a decreased ability to access a more pleasant replacement thought. A study of 43 subjects with 'normal obsessions' using a methodology that controlled the valence and content of replacement thoughts provided support for this disattention hypothesis.