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Therapists also differ widely about how the condition should be treated. The most common technique is behavior modification; its use is based on the assumption that agoraphobia is a habit to be broken. Treatment consists of gradually exposing the phobic patient to feared sit uations, first by having him imagine them, then by forcing him, for instance, to take longer and longer solo walks until the stress disappears. A more drastic technique, similar to throwing a baby into a pool to teach it how to swim, is known as "implosion"?a patient might be driven to a large empty...
...Cheers for Clare Boothe Luce [April 8], the widow of TIME'S founder, for speaking out against TIME'S egregious posturing and phobic Watergate reporting...
...price for its editorial overinvestment in the destruction of the President. That price, as Reasoner noted, is the loss of journalistic prestige and credibility. How ironic, and how fitting, that a distinguished media colleague and certified Nixon critic like Reasoner should blow the whistle on TIME for its phobic Watergate reporting...
Unfortunately, many couples bury their battles, and the ones who do not often fight dirty. Bach, who has a thriving group therapy practice in Beverly Hills, knows "fight-phobic" the games partners they live in play. a shell Many of boring, ritualized "pseudo-intimacy...
Cohen said that a phobia is not simply a fear. "Someone who is nervous about addressing 10,000 people in the Boston Garden is not necessarily a phobic. But the guy who cuts his seminar because he is afraid that he will be called upon to speak has a crippling disability...