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Thought Stopping: A Useful Treatment in Phobias of ‘Internal Stimuli’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. Kumar  and
J. C. M. Wilkinson
K. Kumar
Affiliation:
Behaviour Therapy Unit, Pastures Hospital, Mickleover, Derby
J. C. M. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Behaviour Therapy Unit, Pastures Hospital, Mickleover, Derby
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Since Wolpe (1958) developed the idea of psychotherapy by reciprocal inhibition, systematic desensitization has emerged as an effective method of treatment in phobic states. There exists, however, a group of phobias which cannot be effectively treated with these techniques. These include fears of death, illness, harming other people, etc., and have been recognized by other authors as a separate group by themselves (Marks et al., 1969; Marks, 1969, 1970): phobias of internal stimuli. The search for a suitable method to treat these cases led us to use the thought stopping procedures described by Wolpe and Lazarus (1966, p. 132). There has been a notable lack of literature concerning this method, although Wolpe refers to J. A. Bain who used this technique in 1928.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 550 , September 1971 , pp. 305 - 307
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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