The outcomes of imagery-focused interventions in relation to distress in people with delusions: a systematic literature review.

Background: Imagery-focused therapies within cognitive behavioural therapy are growing in interest and use for people with delusions.

Aims: This review aimed to examine the outcomes of imagery-focused interventions in people with delusions.

Method: PsycINFO, PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, EMBASE and CINAHL were systematically searched for studies that included a clinical population with psychosis and delusions who experienced mental imagery.

Assessing the delivering of iMAgery-focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS) via telehealth.

Objectives: To examine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel telehealth (video-conferencing software and telephone calls) imagery-based therapeutic intervention for people experiencing persecutory delusions. Utilising a multiple baseline case series design and exploring imagery-focused therapy for psychosis (iMAPS).

Design: A non-concurrent A-B multiple baseline design was used.

Positive moods are all alike? Differential affect amplification effects of 'elated' versus 'calm' mental imagery in young adults reporting hypomanic-like experiences.

Positive mood amplification is a hallmark of the bipolar disorder spectrum (BPDS). We need better understanding of cognitive mechanisms contributing to such elevated mood. Generation of vivid, emotionally compelling mental imagery is proposed to act as an 'emotional amplifier' in BPDS.