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implosion /im·plo·sion/ (im-plo´zhun) see flooding.
im·plo·sion (m-plzhn)
n.
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]
implosion
flooding.
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