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Treatment of Test Anxiety by Group Implosive Therapy

Psychological Reports, 1973
36 test anxious Ss were randomly assigned to 3 groups. One group served as the no-treatment control, while the other two groups received either placebo-attention or implosive therapy. Implosive therapy consisted of 5 30-min. sessions of treatment in which Ss were asked to imagine highly anxiety-evoking scenes pertaining to test anxiety while ...
H H, Dawley, W W, Wenrich
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Implosive therapy as an adjunctive treatment in a psychotic disorder: A case report

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1995
The case of a patient with visual and auditory hallucinations that were refractory to conventional pharmacotherapy is presented. Treatment with implosive therapy resulted in the elimination of visual hallucinations and a reduction in frequency and intensity of auditory hallucinations.
Z, Saper, M K, Blank, L, Chapman
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Implosive therapy: A critical analysis of Morganstern's review.

Psychological Bulletin, 1974
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The physiological basis of implosive therapy

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1975
Abstract Two analog studies were designed to investigate the differential effects of length of implosion session, theoretical concepts underlying IT, and the physiological, subjective, and behavioral responses to relevant and irrelevant fear stimuli in implosion.
B A, McCutcheon, H E, Adams
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Implosion therapy by tape-recording

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1975
Abstract According to the model proposed by Stampfl and Levis (1967), implosion reduces fear by evoking anxiety in the presence of cues associated with the phobic object, but in the absence of primary reinforcement. An essential requirement for rapid therapeutic effect is that the patient be made to experience intense affect, since “the greater the ...
H, Orenstein, J, Carr
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Physiological mechanisms of flooding (implosion) therapy

The Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science, 1978
Desensitization of psychological and physiological complex structures may be the most important element of flooding treatment. The implosive sessions are assumed to represent a supramaximal stimulation of pathologically excited and inert complex structures resulting in protective inhibition, irradiation of excitation, reduction of the excitation and ...
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Implosive therapy: A critical review.

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 1972
"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 ...
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Short-Term Implosive Therapy: Case Study

Psychological Reports, 1972
Effective application of implosive therapy is illustrated with a brief case description.
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Group Systematic Desensitization and Implosive Therapy for Death Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 1981
Neither group desensitization nor group implosion was successful in reducing death anxiety of 48 nurses. Implications for future attempts to reduce death anxiety were discussed.
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Implosive therapy: A review.

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 1972
William A. Ayer, A. Steven Frankel
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