2013/07/01 by Brad Bowins · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Bipolar Disorder and Treatment #Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders #Schizophrenia research and treatment
paper · pdf · doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2013.67.3.215
openalex publication_date 2013/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Cognitive regulatory control processes play an essential but typically unappreciated role in maintaining mental health. The purpose of the current paper is to identify this role and demonstrate how cognitive-behavioral and related techniques can compensate for impairments. Impaired cognitive regulation contributes to the overly intense emotional states present in anxiety disorders, depression, and personality disorders; progression of adaptive hypomania to mania; expression of psychosis in the conscious and awake state; dominance of immature defense mechanisms in borderline and other personality disorders. A wide variety of standard (monitoring, reappraisal, response inhibition, relaxation training) and more novel (suppression therapy, willful detachment, cost-benefit analysis, normalization, mature defense mechanism training) cognitive-behavioral and related techniques can be applied to compensate for cognitive regulatory control impairments, and their success probably aligns with this capacity.