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Relaxing Your Fears

Relaxing Your Fears. By Daniel Kim. Background. Joseph Wolpe Year of Publication : 1961 Main Idea of his theory Idea that you cannot experience deep physical relaxation and fear at the same time. Experiment. Stages Progressive muscle relaxation

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Relaxing Your Fears

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  1. Relaxing Your Fears By Daniel Kim

  2. Background • Joseph Wolpe • Year of Publication : 1961 • Main Idea of his theory • Idea that you cannot experience deep physical relaxation and fear at the same time.

  3. Experiment • Stages • Progressive muscle relaxation • Develop a list of anxiety-producing situations or scenes involving the phobia (anxiety hierarchy). • Continue the process until the client remain in relaxed state. • Reduce their sensitivity to their phobias - desensitization

  4. Results • For the 39 cases, 68 phobias were treated. • Sixty-two of them (in 35 patients) were completely successful. • Success rate: 91% • Average number of sessions needed was 12.3

  5. Controversy • Criticism • Wolpe’s method is only treating symptoms, not the underlying causes of anxiety. • The therapy would not be valuable if the symptom returned. • Response • The follow-up reports of successful desensitization from six months to four years after treatment.

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