The comparative effectiveness of systematic desensitization and implosive therapy in the treatment of snake phobia

Mealiea, Wallace L.; Nawas, M. Mike

doi:10.1016/0005-7916(71)90020-6

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“…The threats absorbed by the baby include internal and external threats. The dichotomy between the external world and the internal world is dialectic in nature; in the case of phobias, psychologists have largely ignored the external factors [32][33][34][35][36].…”

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Distortion of the Perception of Existential Space: as Illustrated by Phobias

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2020

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The current study uses the phenomenological method and is concerned with phobic experiences and the distortion of fields and borders in the existential space, as a result of the distortion of the perceptual space, among individuals who suffer from phobic disorders. The school of psychology tends to define the phobic phenomenon as a sort of irrational anxiety. Therefore, it does not attribute any importance to the causes of the anxiety, as experienced by individuals suffering from phobia disorders. Furthermore, the field of psychology also tends to ignore the dominant role of the spatial factor. When anxieties are perceived in the existential space, they are transferred to the outer world; at the same time, in the existential space, a distortion occurs, which then becomes a real and tangible threat to the individuals who are experiencing the phobia. This experience imposes a meaningful and significant limitation on the "I" in the individual's daily reality, and also harms the functioning ability of the individual suffering from phobic disorders (harm to the consciousness and its associated elements).

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Distortion of the Perception of Existential Space: as Illustrated by Phobias

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2020

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“…The desensitization tape content consisted of the intermediate items of a standardized desensitization hierarchy (I6). Ten moderately avoidant and 10 mildly avoidant Ss were treated in precisely the same manner except that they listened to a 12-minute excerpt of taped pseudotherapy based on the transcript reproduced by Mealiea (25). This entailed relaxation instructions paired with instructions to visualize pleasant scenes such as visiting an art gallery or watching a favored television program.…”

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Credibility ratings for desensitization and pseudotherapy among moderately and mildly snake-avoidant college students

McGlynn

Walls

1976

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Twenty moderately avoidant and 20 mildly avoidant Ss were chosen as though they were to participate in a snake-avoidance desensitization experiment. After relaxation training, Ss listened to a taped excerpt of either desensitization or pseudotherapy and responded to a 5-item questionnaire that assessed the credibility of the treatment. Mildly avoidant Ss rated desensitization as more credible than pseudotherapy. The implication of this finding is that a great many experimental studies of systematic desensitization have failed to control satisfactorily for the operation of expectancy effects and nonspecific forms of behavioral influence.

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“…Although flooding is much less pleasant than desensitization, and probably on the whole less effective (e.g., Willis and Edwards, 1969;De Moor, 1970;Mealiea and Nawas, 1971), it is certainly an important addition to our therapeutic armamentarium. In those obsessive-compulsive patients whose lives are ruled by fear of contamination, prolonged exposure to degrees of contamination that evoke moderate disturbance leads to increasing and finally complete tolerance of the contamining agent, usually in a matter of weeks-a Significant breakthrough in what used to be a most refractory syndrome (Meyer, 1966;Hodgson et aI., 1972).…”

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Psychopathology of Human Adaptation

1976

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The comparative effectiveness of systematic desensitization and implosive therapy in the treatment of snake phobia

Cited by 44 publications

References 28 publications

Distortion of the Perception of Existential Space: as Illustrated by Phobias

Distortion of the Perception of Existential Space: as Illustrated by Phobias

Credibility ratings for desensitization and pseudotherapy among moderately and mildly snake-avoidant college students

Psychopathology of Human Adaptation

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