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When one considers research and theory on mood disorders and cognition over the past twenty years or so, then one confronts a historical curiosity. In spite of the fact that clinical anxiety and clinical depression are related forms of mood disorder, there has been considerably more research interest in cognition relevant to depression than to anxiety. The same disparity is also apparent at the theoretical level. Major theories by Beck (1976) and by Seligman (1975) attracted the attention of cognitive psychologists, but until recently there was no systematic cognitive theory of clinical anxiety. The reasons for the much greater interest in cognitive approaches to depression than to anxiety are obscure. However, the fact that the conditioning approach was more successful in accounting for anxiety than for depression may have delayed the search for the alternative theoretical formulations of anxiety (J. Teasdale, pers. comm.).
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Eysenck, M.W. (1991). Cognitive Factors in Clinical Anxiety: Potential Relevance to Therapy. In: Briley, M., File, S.E. (eds) New Concepts in Anxiety. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11847-2_33
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