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Now a severe phobia can be cured for most people in about an hour. And it stays gone. Details or a citation? I'm genuinely curious.

• mattgreenrocks 15y ago
  Same here. I'd love to read about this.
  • disgruntledphd2 15y ago
    It appears that he is referring to cognitive-behavioural therapy, or CBT. The Wikipedia page is pretty good. That being said, it works very well for phobias, but in other areas its about as good as all the other methods of therapy, which implies that its much more down to the meanings that a patient takes from the experience rather than the treatment itself.
  • DanBC 15y ago
    I am talking about "Systemic Desensitization" as developed by Wolpe. That helped form CBT. The evidence base for SD and for CBT is pretty good. (It's a good treatment for depression, if applied by a skilled practitioner.) Here's one link to a BBC Radio 4 programme about treatment of phobia using SD. (Might not be available outside UK, but there's probably some way of getting it.) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g5yy1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g5yy1)