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A Comment On treatment analogues for phobic anxiety states1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Marjorie Olley  and
Harry McAllister
Marjorie Olley*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health and the Department of Psychology, The Queen's University of Belfast
Harry McAllister
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health and the Department of Psychology, The Queen's University of Belfast
*
2Address for correspondence: Miss M. Olley, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Windsor House, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7AB, Northern Ireland.
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Sysnopsis

Much of the development of behavioural methods of treatment for phobic anxiety has relied on volunteer subjects participating in analogue studies investigating appropriate procedures. In this study a group of volunteer subjects with specific phobias is compared on psychometric tests with phobic patients and a normal control group. Results indicate significant differences between the volunteers and patients, in spite of the two groups sharing a common disabling symptom. The patients are distinguished by their high level of neuroticism, anxiety, and general psychiatric symptomology. Such differences raise difficulties of interpretation and indicate the need for caution in the extrapolation of analogue study results to the clinical situation.

Type
Preliminary Communication
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1974 , pp. 463 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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Footnotes

1

This work forms part of a larger study supported by a grant from The Medical Research Council of Great Britain. It has been conducted under the general guidance and assistance of Professor J. G. Gibson, The Department of Mental Health, The Queen's University of Belfast.

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