Sentence examples for verbal thought from inspiring English sources

In 1912, a distinguished British psychiatrist apparently thought it quite uncontroversial that there is a "predominance of verbal thought in civilised man, and of concrete imagery in more primitive races" (Mapother, 1912 p. 73).

Indeed, the belief that imagery (as opposed to verbal thought) is more characteristic of minds that are somehow defective or undeveloped was not confined to, and did not originate with, the Nazis and their sympathizers; it seems to have been widespread in the early 20th century.

In the long silence, morning and afternoon, he concentrated on letting all trace of verbal thought dissolve from his mind.

Worry largely consists of verbal thought and it has been postulated that this predominance of verbal thought in worry may contribute to its perseveration.

Many studies have demonstrated that the phenomenology of worry consists largely of verbal thought.

Twentypercentt of the diary intrusions were experienced as a verbal thought.

We've even emailed verbal thoughts back and forth from person to person.

Second, that BD patients will experience more frequent (and more 'powerful') positive imagery as compared to verbal thoughts and third, that behavioural activation scores will be predicted by imagery variables in the BD group.

No between-group differences were found for preoccupation with verbal thoughts related to suicide or for the compellingness of these verbal thoughts.

Individual interviews assessed suicidal cognitions in the form of (i) mental images and (ii) verbal thoughts.

Both groups reported greater preoccupation with these suicide-related images than with verbal thoughts about suicide.