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Post-doctoral researcher in clinical psychology at the University of Göttingen, focussing on positive mental imagery and translational research methods. All tweets are in a personal capacity. He/him. More info: http://tinyurl.com/sebtrace
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Very interesting cross-sectional study finding that while higher trait "object" imagery ability was associated with higher levels of PTSD symptoms in trauma-exposed individuals, higher trait "spatial" imagery ability was associated with lower levels: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Today's the day! Don't forget to submit your submit symposia, skills classes, in-congress workshops, panels, and roundtables for #EABCT2025 in Glasgow by midnight tonight! Go to eabct2025.org for more info and to submit @drjodaniels.bsky.social @babcp.com @babcpevents.bsky.social

Just accepted at Journal of Anxiety Disorders! Paige DeGennaro finds support for a "vicious cycle" between perseverative thought (getting stuck in your head) and having trouble concentrating: ↑ worry/rumination → ↑ distractability → ↑ worry/rumination www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New ➡️ #PTSD therapy less successful for people in poorer areas. Suggests debt advice be given too @babcp.com @mindcharity.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/talking...

If you want to take part in the EABCT Congress in Glasgow this September, there's only one week left to submit a symposium, skills class, panel debate, clinical roundtable, or in-congress workshop. Find out more & don't miss out on the largest CBT event in Europe this year eabct2025.org/submission

New podcast from 'Let's Talk About CBT Research Matters" Full paper available here too! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Listen to Alex Lau-Zhu talking about flash-forward mental imagery and anxiety in young people:

JOINT US!! BABCP Spring conference is back! April 8th and 9th, Kings College London (Waterloo Campus): Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on CFT: babcp.com/Spring-Confere…

Great to see this work by Olivia Hewitt and colleagues now published: co-design of a new mental imagery-based intervention for people with intellectual disabilities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out the amazing line-up for the BABCP Spring Conference and Workshops in London 8th-9th April - registration now open!

Just 2 weeks left (until 28th Feb) to submit symposia, skills classes, panels, roundtables, and in-congress workshops to #EABCT2025 in Glasgow! Check out the website for full details and to submit: eabct2025.org @babcp.com @babcpevents.bsky.social @drjodaniels.bsky.social

Very interesting (and complex!) set of results examining the relationship between #mentalimagery, emotion, and risk-taking willingness from Joanna Smieja, Tomasz Zaleskiewicz, & Agata Gasiorowska: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Special issue on causal mediation analysis in single case experimental designs.

We, editors of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT), have just moved to Bsky and hope to provide lots of information relevant to psychotrauma! EJPT is the official journal of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)-Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/journals/zep...

I am genuinely so pleased to see this paper out, an extraordinary feat of work to develop adapt and test the HAI for medical settings, led by Dr Jess Colenutt HAI in medical settings risk inflated scores and delegitimising patients. @babcpjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5bmnf864

Trying to use my anger for good, I wrote about how some people have reacted to indirect rates being slashed. I borrowed from the writing on "reactionary centrists," a term I first head from @michaelhobbes.bsky.social but that was coined by @aaronhuertas.bsky.social medium.com/@lluaces/the...

First publication of the year with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social: Therapists’ interpersonal skills before start of training predicted outcomes during clinical training, especially for more severely distressed cases. Open access in BRAT: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Marking 20 years since the official opening of the Longwall Brewery with the (newly brewed) 3rd edition of the "Winterreise" winter beer.

New preprint on "Attitudes Toward Open Science Practices"! We asked 596 German psychologists about their worries and hopes towards open science practices! ECRs reported more worries AND more fears, but the more you use OS the less worries and the more hopes you have. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New review paper examining psychosocial interventions for family and carers of those admitted to mental health inpatient units www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very interesting experimental study finding that imaginal extinction still worked fine when people were not able to generate mental imagery (due to aphantasia or artificial disruption of mental imagery): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 We're looking for speakers for this year's Person-Centered Tx & Prevention Collaborative ✨flash talks✨ 🔹 Who: Anyone is welcome! 🔹 Format: 30 minute talk followed by Q&A 🔹 Content: Advancing person-centered approaches in mental health Interested? Let us know! Drop a reply or DM for more details.

Quite remarkable results from Richard Bryant and colleagues here: adding memory specificity training to a form of trauma-focussed CBT for first responders led to greater reductions in PTSD severity at 6-month follow-up, with large between-group effect sizes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very comprehensive new review from Michelle Moulds and Peter McEvoy on repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic process, covering everything from models through assessment to interventions:

Registration is now open for next year's flagship European CBT congress #EABCT2025 in Glasgow, September 2025! All keynote speakers and pre-congress workshop presenters are now on the website - check it out for info, register, and submit! @babcp.bsky.social @drjodaniels.bsky.social eabct2025.org

Our PhD symposium at #GEM2025 gives ECR's a chance to network with their peers before the conference begins and everyone gets overwhelmed. This year Johannes Mahr @jomahr.bsky.social, our keynote speaker, will also be on the panel at the symposium. #neuroscience #RUB #episodicmemory #ECR

tCBT New paper: Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices Full free text at https://buff.ly/40cPObs

Very interesting and thought-provoking (role of imagery v.s. non-imagery processes) review article on future thinking and emotional disorders from Andy MacLeod: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Interesting to see this study from Korea investigating enhancing behavioural activation for depression via mental imagery - given the sample size, results are very preliminary, but it's nice to see this work being done: www.stressresearch.or.kr/journal/view...

The Research Unit 2812 / FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is organizing an interdisciplinary conference, bringing together researchers from all fields to advance our knowledge on generative episodic memory. Spread the word and join in! ✨

It's finally 2025 and it is going to be a busy year for the FOR 2812. Don't forget we are accepting abstracts for GEM 2025. You can submit talks, posters or a symposium. Further information can be found on our website for2812.rub.de/gem2025.

Yes, I am one of those horrible people who submit during the season. New preprint, 1st paper from my #ERCStG DECOMPOSE www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... The goals of DECOMPOSE are break-down psychological interventions into components, integrate these in a taxonomy and evaluate incremental efficacy

GEM 2025 - Call for abstracts now open! Visit for2812.rub.de/gem2025 for more information. Submit talks, posters, or symposia by 15.03.2025 #gem2025 #generativeepisodicmemory #episodicmemory #memory #philosophyofmind #computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuroscienceconference #callforabstracts