Autobiographical memory in obsessive‐compulsive disorder

British Journal of Clinical Psychology - Tập 36 Số 1 - Trang 21-31 - 1997
Sabine Wilhelm1, Richard J. McNally2, Lee Baer3, Irmela Florin4
1Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
3Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
4University of Marburg, Germany#TAB#

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Patients with obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) (N = 36) and healthy controls (N = 24) participated in an autobiographical memory experiment in which they were asked to retrieve specific personal memories in response to cue words having either positive (e.g. happy) or negative (e.g. anxiety) valence. Compared to control participants, OCD patients had difficulty retrieving specific memories and showed longer retrieval latencies. However, these overgenerality effects were not a function of OCD per se, but were related to a co‐morbid diagnosis of major depression. The difficulty in retrieving specific autobiographical memories exhibited by OCD patients might reflect excessive cognitive capacity consumption due to preoccupation with intrusive thoughts typical of major depression.

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British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Tập 36 Số 1

21-31

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