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K Oatley

Publications and source records attributed to K Oatley.

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PubMed1991

A longitudinal study of psychological and social factors affecting recovery from psychiatric breakdowns.

Thirty-five people who had suffered a recent onset of symptoms of depression and/or anxiety were interviewed soon after being seen by a clinician, and again six months later. Symptom scores at the second interview were predicted by whether any plans subjects had formed by the first interview had gone wrong, by major non-health difficulties, and by internal, stable and global attributions made at the first interview about the event or difficulty that was most distressing before symptoms became severe.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1990

Guided imagery in brief psychodynamic therapy: outcome and process.

Twenty-one clients were assigned to three conditions in a four-month trial of once per week psychodynamic therapy. Clients in an imagery condition worked with subpersonalities elicited by psychosynthesis guided visual imagery. Clients in a non-imagery condition worked in a similar way, but without guided imagery. The third condition was a minimal contact control group in which clients had all assessments (at baseline, mid-point, outcome and follow-up) but no active therapy. Mean outcomes in imagery and non-imagery groups were significantly better than for the minimal contact group on target aims of therapy, and on self-acceptance, but there were no significant differences between the imagery and non-imagery groups. Repertory grids enabled the trajectory of each individual in therapy to be tracked in a conceptual space in which subpersonalties were related to people in the subjects' real lives. A case history of an imagery client who improved during the course of therapy is discussed to show these relationships and the utility of a combined nomothetic and idiographic research design.

Fantasy↗