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Embodiment in Clinical Disorders and Treatment

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Traditional social cognitive and cognitive-clinical perspectives have assumed that thinking (or cognition) and information processing play key causal roles in emotional and clinical disorders. Misappraisals and faulty attributions, assumptions, and beliefs, and cognitive activity such as rumination and worry, are the focus of clinical interventions. However, in recent decades, it has become increasingly recognized that the links between cognition and bodily states are mutual and reciprocal. That is, it is not just that an individual’s cognition influences body states and emotion, but the individual’s body states and emotions can also influence their cognitive processes in return. The links between cognition, emotion, and bodily states are fundamentally bidirectional and complex and it may be important to consider the impact of emotion and bodily states in cognitive changes. Thus, strategies from embodied or body-oriented approaches may help to augment CBT strategies to produce better treatment outcomes. The rapidly growing literature on embodiment science has the intriguing potential to afford new insights for understanding and treating clinical disorders.

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Riskind, J.H., Schrader, S.W., Loya, J.M. (2021). Embodiment in Clinical Disorders and Treatment. In: Robinson, M.D., Thomas, L.E. (eds) Handbook of Embodied Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3_22

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