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Behavioural Psychotherapy for a Blood and Needle Phobic Mastectomy Patient Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

David J. De L. Horne  and
Heather McCormack
David J. De L. Horne
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry,
Heather McCormack
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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A 50-year-old married woman who had had a radical mastectomy was on the threshold of ceasing to take adjuvant chemotherapy because of a longstanding needle and blood phobia and a recently acquired conditioned nausea response to hospital and medical situations. A cognitive-behavioural therapy programme incorporating relaxation training, imaginal systematic densitization and video modelling, allowed her to complete the chemotherapy course and to feel less anxious in hospital and medical settings.

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Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1984 , pp. 342 - 348
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1984

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