Publications

Dr Papageorgiou is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles in several scientific journals. He has collaborated with a number of national and international clinical researchers who have shaped our psychological understanding and effective treatments for a range of mental health problems. Dr Papageorgiou’s research publications focus specifically on both cognitive behavioural and metacognitive theories and treatments of depression and anxiety disorders. An important objective of this research has been to improve the quality of, and maximise the benefits obtained from, psychological interventions, which is a central goal of his Specialist Psychological Clinics. A representative list of Dr Papageorgiou’s publications is shown below in alphabetical order. Click on each publication listed to see further details.

Dammen, T., Munkhaugen, J., Sverre, E., Moum, T., & Papageorgiou, C. (2023). Psychiatric disorders, rumination, and metacognitions in patients with Type D personality and coronary heart disease. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 77, 540-546.

Dammen, T., Papageorgiou, C., Lindstrøm, J. C., & Einvik, G. (2023). Metacognitions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A psychometric study of the Metacognitions Questionnaire-30. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1-9.

Dammen, T., Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2014). An open trial of group metacognitive therapy for depression in Norway. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 69, 126-131.

Dammen, T., Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2016). A two-year follow up study of group metacognitive therapy for depression in Norway. Journal of Anxiety and Depression, 5, 1-4.

Dammen, T., Tunheim, K., Munkhaugen, J., Klungsøyr, O., & Papageorgiou, C. (2023). Attention training technique delivered in groups as treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with coronary heart disease: Study protocol for a waiting-list randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1-11.

Dammen, T., Tunheim, K., Munkhaugen, J., & Papageorgiou, C. (2022). The attention training technique reduces anxiety and depression in patients with coronary heart disease: A pilot feasibility study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-10.

Doubleday, E. K., King, P., & Papageorgiou, C. (2002). Relationship between fluid intelligence and ability to benefit from cognitive-behavioural therapy in older adults: A preliminary investigation. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 423-428.

Frøjd, L. A., Dammen, T., Munkhaugen, J., Weedon-Fekjaer, H., Nordhus, I. H., Papageorgiou, C., & Sverre, E. (2022). Insomnia as a predictor of recurrent cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease. Sleep Advances, 3, 1-10.

Frøjd, L. A., Munkhaugen, J., Moum, T., Sverre, E., Nordhus, I. H., Papageorgiou, C., & Dammen, T. (2021). Insomnia in patients with coronary heart disease: prevalence and correlates. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17, 931-938.

Frøjd, L. A., Munkhaugen, J., Papageorgiou, C., Sverre, E., Moum, T., & Dammen, T. (2023). Predictors of health-related quality of life in outpatients with coronary heart disease. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1-9.

Frøjd, L. A., Papageorgiou, C., Munkhaugen, J., Moum, T., Sverre, E., Nordhus, I. H., & Dammen, T. (2021). Worry and rumination predict insomnia in patients with coronary heart disease: A cross-sectional study with long-term follow-up. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 12.

Gill, A. H., Papageorgiou, C., Gaskell, S. L., & Wells, A. (2013). Development and preliminary validation of the Thought Control Questionnaire for adolescents (TCQ-A). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 242-255.

Goring, H. J., & Papageorgiou, C. (2007). Rumination and worry: Factor analysis of self-report measures in depressed participants. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1573-2819 (Online).

Hall, P. L., & Papageorgiou, C. (2005). Negative thoughts after childbirth: Development and preliminary validation of a self-report scale. Depression and Anxiety, 22, 121-129.

Munkhaugen, J., Papageorgiou, C., Hagen, R., Johnson, S. U., Einvik, G., & Dammen, T. (2023). Editorial: Progress in understanding and treating distress, sleep, and personality in heart and lung disease. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1-3.

Papageorgiou, C. (2006). Worry and rumination: Styles of persistent negative thinking in anxiety and depression. In G. C. L. Davey and A. Wells (Eds.), Worry and its psychological disorders: Theory, assessment and treatment (pp. 21-40). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Papageorgiou, C. (2009). Cognitive behaviour therapy, depressive rumination and metacognition. In G. Simos (Ed.), Cognitive behaviour therapy: A guide for the practising clinician (pp. 18-33). East Sussex, UK: Routledge.

Papageorgiou, C. (2015). Metacognitive theory, therapy and techniques: Introduction to the special issue. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 1-3.

Papageorgiou, C., Carlile, K., Thorgaard, S., Waring, H., Haslam, J., Horne, L., & Wells, A. (2018). Group cognitive-behaviour therapy or group metacognitive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder?: Benchmarking and comparative effectiveness in a routine clinical service. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-11.

Papageorgiou, C., Goring, H., & Haslam, J. (2011). Coping with depression: A guide to what works for patients, carers, and professionals. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications.

Papageorgiou, C., & Purdon, C. (2001). On understanding the persistence of depressive and anxious thinking. Behavior Therapy, 32, 1-2.

Papageorgiou, C., & Siegle, G. J. (2003). Rumination and depression: Advances in theory and research. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27, 243-245.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (1998). Effects of attention training in hypochondriasis: A brief case series. Psychological Medicine, 28, 193-200.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (1999). Process and metacognitive dimensions of depressive and anxious thoughts and relationships with emotional intensity. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 6, 156-162.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2000). Treatment of recurrent major depression with attention training. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 7, 407-413.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2001). Metacognitive beliefs about rumination in recurrent major depression. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 8, 160-164.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2001). Positive beliefs about depressive rumination: Development and preliminary validation of a self-report scale. Behavior Therapy, 32, 13-26.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2002). Effects of heart rate information on anxiety, perspective taking, and performance in high and low social-evaluative anxiety. Behavior Therapy, 33, 181-199.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2003). An empirical test of a clinical metacognitive model of rumination and depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27, 261-273.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2003). Depressive rumination: Nature, theory, and treatment. Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2003). Nature, functions, and beliefs about depressive rumination. In C. Papageorgiou and A. Wells (Eds.), Depressive rumination: Nature, theory, and treatment (pp. 3-20). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2008). Ruminazione depressiva: Teoria e trattamento. Italy: Erickson.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2009). A prospective test of the clinical metacognitive model of rumination and depression. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 2, 123-131.

Papageorgiou, C., & Wells, A. (2015). Group metacognitive therapy for severe antidepressant and CBT resistant depression: A baseline-controlled trial. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 14-22.

Roelofs, J., Papageorgiou, C., Gerber, R. D., Huibers, M., Peeters, F., & Arntz, A. (2007). On the links between self-discrepancies, rumination, metacognitions, and symptoms of depression in undergraduates. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1295-1305.

Simpson, C., & Papageorgiou, C. (2003). Metacognitive beliefs about rumination in anger. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 10, 91-94.

Tunheim, K., Dammen, T., Baardstu, S., Moum, T., Munkhaugen, J., & Papageorgiou, C. (2022). Relationships between depression, anxiety, type D personality, and worry and rumination in patients with coronary heart disease. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-12.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (1995). Worry and the incubation of intrusive images following stress. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 33, 579-583.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (1998). Relationships between worry, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and metacognitive beliefs. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36, 899-913.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (1998). Social phobia: Effects of external attention on anxiety, negative beliefs, and perspective taking. Behavior Therapy, 29, 357-370.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (1999). The observer perspective: Biased imagery in social phobia, agoraphobia, and blood-injury phobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, 653-658.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (2001). Social phobic interoception: Effects of bodily information on anxiety, beliefs and self-processing. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 1-11.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (2001). Brief cognitive therapy for social phobia: A case series. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 713-720.

Wells, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (2003). Metacognitive therapy for depressive rumination. In C. Papageorgiou and A. Wells (Eds.), Depressive rumination: Nature, theory, and treatment (pp. 259-273). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Wells, A., Welford, M., King, P., Papageorgiou, C., Wisely, J., & Mendel, E. (2010). A pilot randomized trial of metacognitive therapy vs applied relaxation in the treatment of adults with generalized anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 429-434.

Wilson, G., Pritchard, P. P., Papageorgiou, C., Phillips, S., Kumar, P., Langan-Evans, C., Routledge, H., Owens, D. J., Morton, J. P., & Close, G. L. (2015). Fasted exercise and increased dietary protein reduces body fat and improves strength in jockeys. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 36, 1008-1014.