Implosion therapy
The Implosionstherapie is a form of behavioral therapy, which also psychodynamic incorporate aspects in confrontation. Stampf and Levis (1967) spoke of sequential cues such as aggression, punishment, anal material, and sexual material in relation to psychodynamic theories . Therapy has the following features:
- The confrontation takes place only in the imagination ( in sensu ).
- The situation is massively exaggerated.
- Technically and theoretically, psychodynamic models are the focus.
The only difference to overstimulation ( flooding ) is that the selected stimuli originate from psychodynamic theory.
execution
It is carried out in two steps:
- Create a hierarchy of fear
- Stimulus confrontation in sensu, in which the highest possible level of fear should be achieved. The aim is to keep the patient at a high level of anxiety until the anxiety subsides spontaneously. This spontaneous regression is known as implosion . The fear hierarchy is completely worked through so that no stimulus is able to trigger fear.
criticism
Implosion therapy has been pushed into the background because of the imprecise description of how the method is carried out, due to problems in its implementation and in the development of alternatives that do not have these problems.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Jürgen Hoyer: Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy (textbook with online materials) . Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-13018-2 , pp. 533 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Senf, Michael Broda: Practice of Psychotherapy: An integrative textbook . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-13-158545-5 , p. 220 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ American Psychiatric Association: Behavioral Therapy in Psychiatry . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-95957-8 , pp. 75 ( limited preview in Google Book search).