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  • Flooding - This is a form of psychologicaltherapy for the treatment of phobias. 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.


See also

Direct therapeutic exposure

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