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This is a report of recent developments in behaviour therapy in the treatment of phobias, observed while studying at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, England from July 1971 to May 1972. The modified flooding technique as practised by Marks and his team is less extreme than that employed by Stampfl. Furthermore it is more rapid and practical than Wolpe's systematic desensitization, while it is as efficient as this method in the treatment of specific phobias and surpasses it in the treatment of agoraphobia. In specific phobias flooding in practice gives better results than flooding in imagination. In agoraphobia the superiority of one part of the treatment over the other has not yet been demonstrated. The importance of prolonged exposure to the phobic situation is now obvious. This technique is not time consuming, the treatment is active, generally well accepted by the patients and improvement, both subjective and objective, is remarkable.

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