Phobia Treatments - what are the available treatments for Phobias? |
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Every so often a television program appears in which a therapist takes someone with a phobia and attempts to cure them. And Invariably they use one of the most ineffective phobia treatments known except for maybe waiting for the phobia to disappear on its own, and that is ... Aversion TherapyIn my opinion, Aversion therapy is the most ridiculous, most retracted, and most ineffective of the phobia treatments used today. | |||||||||
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Whenever I see it used I have to cringe. The process is straightforward - slowly over a long period of time bring the client and the stimulus closer and closer together, maybe even starting with pictures of the stimulus, until the client can remain in the same room without fleeing. Aside from the issue of how long this process takes, the results are invariably poor. The best result is that the client is able to gain enough control in the presence of the stimulus not to run away, but that is when the treatment stops. Turning a phobia into anxiety is hardly a cure. EFTNow EFT is quite new, and I must confess I have little experience of it. I know that in the UK, Paul McKenna has used it, so I believe there must be some value to it. From what I have seen of EFT is seems to work in a similar way to NLP - in regards to phobias. Like NLP, results seem far better than aversion therapy in that the client becomes rather ambivalent to the phobia stimulus rather than just less apprehensive. The article Hypnosis, NLP, and EFT - a Comparison covers EFT in more detail. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)As NLP is the subject of this website, you have probably worked out for yourself that of all phobia treatments, this is the treatment for your phobia that I recommend. The NLP Fast Phobia cure is effective, incredibly quick, and provides a proper result in that the phobia is gone - completely gone! Hypnosis for PhobiasHypnosis is very useful for a number of issues, but I feel that due to the specific nature of phobias, NLP or EFT are much better and more specific phobia treatments. Hypnosis tends to be more useful for more complex issues such as weight loss or confidence. Are there any products I can buy for curing a Phobia?There are a few specific products that I recommend for curing phobias. For a general phobia cure you can checkout Richard Bandler's Banishing Phobias CD or for cures for specific phobias checkout Paul McKenna's Overcome your Phobia recordings. |
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