Mental Imagery in Psychopathology: Another Step; Editorial for the special issue of Journal of Experimental

The importance of mental imagery for psychopathology has been increasingly recognised in the past decade. Vivid intrusive images have long been considered a central feature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). However, in the last decade studies have illuminated that imagery may also be key in a wide range of other psychiatric disorder including agoraphobia (Day, Holmes & Hackmann, 2004), social phobia (Hirsch