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Preferred term

Implosive Therapy  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A method for extinguishing anxiety by a saturation exposure to the feared stimulus situation or its substitute. A method for treatment of anxiety disorders using repeated presentations of a specific stimulus to habituate the subject, and extinguish normal innate and acquired fear.

Entry terms

  • Flooding, Imaginal
  • Flooding Therapy
  • Imaginal Flooding
  • Therapy, Implosive

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-L8VZMZMD-6

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