Reducing Intrusive Trauma Memories Using a Brief Mental Imagery Competing Task Intervention: Case Series of Trauma-Exposed Women in Iceland

Kristjana Thorarinsdottir   ¹ , MSc ;   Emily A Holmes   ² , Prof Dr ;   Johann Hardarson   ¹ , MSc ;   Freyja Agustsdottir   ¹ , MSc ;   Marie Kanstrup   ³ , PhD ;   Laura Singh   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Arna Hauksdottir   ⁶ , Prof Dr ;   Thorhildur Halldorsdottir   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Berglind Gudmundsdottir   ^{8, 9} , Prof Dr ;   Edda Bjork Thordardottir   ⁶ , PhD ;   Unnur Valdimarsdottir   ^{6, 10, 11} , Prof Dr ;   Andri Bjornsson   ¹ , Prof Dr

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

² Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

³ Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

⁴ Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

⁵ Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden

⁶ Center of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

⁷ Department of Psychology, Reykjavík University, Reykjavik, Iceland

⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland

⁹ Landspitali—University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland

¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

¹¹ Unit of Integrative Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden