Self, cognition, and psychopathology: Introduction to the special section (Part I)

摘要

A particularly stormy, albeit fruitful, debate in psychopathology is the one focusing on the role of cognition in mental disorders. Historically, James Coyne and Ian Gotlib, in a brilliantly constructed article in Psychological Bulletin, were the ones opening the debate (Coyne & Gotlib, 1983). These two psychopathology giants questioned what was, at the time, the assumption that maladaptive cognitions caues psychopathology, particularly depression, and that psycholtherapy remediatcs psychopathology by correcting cognitions.~1