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PubMed1980

Implosive therapy as a treatment for insomnia.

Previous research has suggested that insomnia is related positively to preoccupation with death. Introductory psychology students (N = 200) of both sexes who qualified as insomniacs were administered Implosive Therapy specifically targeted to fear of death, nonspecific Implosive Therapy, a relaxation procedure, or were assigned to a wait-control group. All three experimental treatments resulted in significant decreases in anxiety as measured by the Fear Survey Schedule II administered immediately after the experiment. The groups did not differ, however, before or after treatment on reported fear of death as measured by the Collett-Lester scale. On self-report measures collected 1 month after the experimental treatment, all groups, including the wait-control, showed a significant decrease in latency of sleep onset. Pairwise comparisons indicated that only the death implosion condition was significantly more effective than the wait-control. The finding was interpreted to mean that the death implosion produced a decrease in insomnia beyond the strong expectancy effects that resulted from all experimental treatments. The failure to observe changes in reported fear of death was attributed to Ss' anxiety-based reluctance to acknowledge openly such fear.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1978

The effect of group implosive therapy on snake phobias.

Snake phobic Ss in groups of 10 were presented with a verbal fantasy similar to those used in individual Implosive Therapy (IT) in order to explore the adaptability of the procedure to group use. A single 25-minute implosive presentation of the same material on audio tape was effective in reducing snake phobias in about the same percentage of Ss as individual IT. It was concluded that IT can be adapted to group use, but that care should be taken to ensure an opportunity for extinction to occur through repeated presentation of the fantasy material.

Animals↗
PubMed1982

Implosive therapy in the treatment of combat related fears in a world war II veteran.

A 55-year old veteran with combat related fears of 36 years' duration was successfully treated in three sessions of implosive therapy, each lasting approximately 1 hr. This improvement followed 15 hospitalizations over the preceding 30 month period, and previous unsuccessful treatment efforts including prescription of antabuse, an inpatient alcohol treatment program, and an agoraphobia treatment program conducted on an outpatient basis. Treatment gains were maintained over a 2 year follow-up period.

Behavior Therapy↗
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Physiological mechanisms of flooding (implosion) therapy.

Desensitization of psychological and physiological complex structures may be the most important element of flooding treatment. The implosive sessions are assumed to represent a supramaximal stimulation of pathologically excited and inert complex structures resulting in protective inhibition, irradiation of excitation, reduction of the excitation and inertness, and a decrease of the overshooting autonomic reactivity of the complex structures, leading to reduction of anxiety, aggression, and other pathologically increased feelings. Advantages such as stronger and improved flooding can be achieved by a flooding in hypnosis. The therapeutic indications go beyond the usual treatment of phobic states. In order to establish the psychological and physiological mechanisms in implosion there is a need for psychophysiological investigations. However, much is unknown about mechanisms. Controlled comparisons with other treatments give limited answers. Perhaps an international case history bank might establish which clinical conditions might benefit by technical modifications of flooding.

Animals↗