Heart Rate Variability Predicts Therapy Outcome in Anxiety Disorders: The Role of Inhibitory Learning. [PDF]
Fagioli S +6 more
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Baseline characteristics and treatment outcomes for people accessing a virtual partial hospital program versus a residential program for obsessive-compulsive disorder. [PDF]
Woodson O +3 more
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Combining Ketamine Infusions and Written Exposure Therapy for Chronic PTSD: An Open-Label Trial. [PDF]
Feder A +17 more
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Take a Look at Me Now: The Use of Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder. [PDF]
Meyerbröker K, Emmelkamp P.
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Prediction of generalized anxiety disorder treatment outcomes with neurobehavioral responses to approach-avoidance conflict: a randomized clinical trial. [PDF]
Berg H +16 more
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Exposure Therapy in Mixed Reality for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Miegel F +7 more
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Implosive therapy—A behavioral therapy?
Abstract Despite differences in technique and theory, most approaches which are given the label of “behavioral therapy” seem to have in common the following three characteristics: (1) an emphasis placed on the direct treatment of the symptom (2) a strong tendency to reject the concepts and rationale of traditional psychodynamic approaches, and (3 ...
Thomas G. Stampfl, Donald J. Levis
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Experiences With Implosive Therapy
Implosive Therapy (IT), which was originated by Thomas Stampfl in the 1950s, is an imagery technique built on psychoanalytic theory and learning theory. IT can be an effective means of helping people who have phobias and aversions. Examples illustrate the rationale, application, and outcome of the procedure.
James D. Troester
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Short-Term Implosive Therapy: Case Study
Effective application of implosive therapy is illustrated with a brief case description.
Barry McCarthy
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Implosive therapy: A critical review.
"Implosive Therapy" (IT) is a behavior modification technique developed by Stampfl (1961) for the treatment of phobias. There are few well-controlled studies of this technique though its proponents argue it has much promise. Much of the IT literature consists of case studies, and the research studies which do exist vary considerably in the degree to ...
A. Steven Frankel
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