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implosion /im·plo·sion/ (im-plo´zhun) see flooding.

im·plo·sion (

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1. A type of behavior therapy in which the patient is repeatedly subjected to anxiety-arousing stimuli while the therapist attempts to extinguish the patient's anxiety and anxious behavior and replace them with more appropriate responses.

2. A bursting inward rather than outward.

implosion

[implō′zhən]

Etymology: L, im + plaudere, to strike

1 a bursting inward.

2 a psychiatric treatment for people disabled by phobias and anxiety in which the person is desensitized to anxiety-producing stimuli by repeated intense exposure in imagination or reality, until the stimuli are no longer stressful. Also called flooding. implode, v.

implosion [im-plo´zhun]

see flooding.

implosion

flooding.

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