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Relaxing Your Fears Away

Relaxing Your Fears Away. Claire Bliss Dee Luo. Background. A rat, when it sees a picture of a cat, gets scared. However, using classical conditioning, the fear of the cat can be diminished if the rat is given food.

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Relaxing Your Fears Away

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  1. Relaxing Your Fears Away Claire Bliss Dee Luo

  2. Background • A rat, when it sees a picture of a cat, gets scared. However, using classical conditioning, the fear of the cat can be diminished if the rat is given food. • Joseph Wolpe noticed this reciprocal inhibition and came up with the theory of systematic desensitization.

  3. Methods • Wolpe performed systematic desensitization on 39 cases, randomly chosen out of 150 cases. • 3 Steps • Relaxation training • Construction of anxiety hierarchy • Desensitization

  4. Results • Out of the 68 phobias treated in 39 cases, 62 (91%) were judged to be completely or partially successful. • The remaining 6 (9%) were unsuccessful. • The average number of sessions needed for successful treatment was 12.3.

  5. Criticisms • Psychoanalysts said Wolpe’s methods did not treat the underlying cause of the phobias, only the symptoms. (Leaking dike) • Wolpe responded by showing that 25 out of the 35 cured did not relapse into phobias. How dare you question my findings?!

  6. Conclusion • Wolpe’s method of systematic desensitization is now the most prominent method to cure phobias. • Systematic desensitization is effective for long periods of time. (college students suffering from fear of public speaking).

  7. Build your own • http://www.pe2000.com/desens-hierarchy.html

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