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You Don't Have to be Sick to be a Behaviour Therapist but it can Help! Treatment of a “Vomit” Phobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

M. McFadyen
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen
J. Wyness
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen

Extract

The successful treatment of a client with a handicapping fear of other people vomiting is described. This involved exposure to “vomiting”, using a simulation procedure. It is suggested that the appropriate stimulus in such cases may be someone vomiting rather than vomit itself.

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Clinical Section
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1983

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