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Group Exposure (Flooding) in vivo for Agoraphobics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

I. Hand ,
Y. Lamontagne  and
I. M. Marks
I. Hand
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, D-2000, Hamburg 20, Martinistrasse, Germany
Y. Lamontagne
Affiliation:
Unité de Recherche, Hôpital St. Jean de Dieu, Montreal, P.Q., Canada
I. M. Marks
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
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Exposure treatments such as flooding are being used increasingly for phobic and obsessive-compulsive disorders (reviewed by Marks, 1972). The shortage of treatment personnel has led to a search for ways to save therapist time. An obvious way of economizing is to expose a number of patients simultaneously in groups, instead of individually, to the real life situation which they fear.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 583 , June 1974 , pp. 588 - 602
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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Footnotes

A synopsis of this paper was published in the December 1973 Journal.

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