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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.
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)