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Implosive therapy (or implosion therapy) is a form of [[exposure therapy]] similar to the imaginal form of [[flooding]], with which it can be confused.
   
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Implosive therapy and flooding cannot be used interchangeably,as the former is flooding with a difference. Both are exposing the client to anxiety arousing stimuli for prolonged durations,but flooding deals with the actual [[stimulus]] or its image, while in implosion a much higher anxiety is evoked as the imagined scenes are exaggerated by the therapist who also introduces commentaries on the worst of the persons fears. So while in flooding you might be asked to picture spider, perhaps at various distances so the you become desensitized to the image in implosive therapy you might be asked to imagine the spider entering your mouth as you sleep if that was an anticipated [[fantasy]] aspect of your fear.
   
 
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'''Flooding''' - This is a form of [[behaviour therapy]] for the treatment of [[phobias]] and other anxiety disorders.. It is called an exposure treatment, where the patient is exposed to their feared object . In doing so the realisation that they have encountered their most dreaded object or situation, and come to no actual harm, can be a powerful form of therapy.
 
 
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Theoretically the [[anxiety]] provoked is thought to [[habituate]] over time and, by remaining in the situation until the intense fear passes, people can more easily make the cognitive changes and parallel behaviour changes to overcome their phobia.
 
 
The exposure may occur in the actual presence of the feared object (eg a spider), in which case this is said to be '''in vivo''' exposure,. Alternatively the procedure may involve looking at pictures of the feared stimulus, or producing internal imagery (so called imagianl approach)
 
 
==See also==
 
*[[Direct therapeutic exposure]]
 
*[[Exposure therapy]]
 
*[[Implosion therapy]]
 
 
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==Additional material==
 
===Books===
 
 
===Papers===
 
*[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?sourceid=mozclient&num=50&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=Depression+women Google Scholar]
 
 
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Implosive therapy (or implosion therapy) is a form of exposure therapy similar to the imaginal form of flooding, with which it can be confused.

Implosive therapy and flooding cannot be used interchangeably,as the former is flooding with a difference. Both are exposing the client to anxiety arousing stimuli for prolonged durations,but flooding deals with the actual stimulus or its image, while in implosion a much higher anxiety is evoked as the imagined scenes are exaggerated by the therapist who also introduces commentaries on the worst of the persons fears. So while in flooding you might be asked to picture spider, perhaps at various distances so the you become desensitized to the image in implosive therapy you might be asked to imagine the spider entering your mouth as you sleep if that was an anticipated fantasy aspect of your fear.