You Don't Have to be Sick to be a Behaviour Therapist but it can Help! Treatment of a “Vomit” Phobia
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioural Psychotherapy
- Vol. 11 (2) , 173-176
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0141347300006595
Abstract
The successful treatment of a client with a handicapping fear of other people vomiting is described. This involved exposure to “vomiting”, using a simulation procedure. It is suggested that the appropriate stimulus in such cases may be someone vomiting rather than vomit itself.Keywords
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