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- A behavior therapy procedure in which a client is intensively exposed to the
feared object, in reality or in the imagination, for extended periods of time
and without opportunity for escape, until the anxiety diminishes.
- (implosion) A behavior therapy procedure for phobias and other problems involving
maladaptive anxiety, in which anxiety producers are presented in intense forms,
either in imagination or in real life. The presentations, which act as
desensitizers, are continued until the stimuli no longer produce disabling
anxiety.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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