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This second paper by Feather and Rhoads elaborates their treatment methodology. The first step quite naturally consists of eliciting information about psychological conflicts related to the specific symptoms. Next, after training the patient in muscle relaxation, desensitization is employed utilizing fantasies directly related to the etiological conflicts and unacceptable impulses. The authors suggest that patients resolve their conflicts about these unacceptable impulses through gaining the ability to make an adequate differentiation between the reality of their actions and the fantasy of their impulses. This of course has wide potential implications for the treatment of other disorders of behavior. They also raise an intriguing question as to whether the therapeutic effects of systematic desensitization techniques result from “helping patients to form more accurate discriminations between fantasy and reality” or from the “desensitization” process itself.
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Feather, B.W., Rhoads, J.M. (1980). Psychodynamic Behavior Therapy. In: Marmor, J., Woods, S.M. (eds) The Interface Between the Psychodynamic and Behavioral Therapies. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3000-4_21
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