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Desensitization and Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Phobic States: A Controlled Inquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. G. Gelder ,
I. M. Marks ,
H. H. Wolff  and
M. Clarke
M. G. Gelder
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
I. M. Marks
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
H. H. Wolff
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
M. Clarke
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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There is still much disagreement about the best way to treat patients with phobic states. Until recently, drugs and various forms of psychotherapy have mainly been used. Lately, behaviour therapy has also come into use, as graded retraining in practice (Meyer and Gelder, 1963), or as desensitization in imagination (Rachman, 1959; Wolpe, 1961). Since few investigations have included adequate control groups, results such as those of Wolpe (1961) cannot indicate whether behaviour therapy is an advance on existing forms of treatment.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 494 , January 1967 , pp. 53 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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