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The Management of Patients in a Phobia Clinic

Management of people in this phobia clinic is based on a theory that phobias result from misinterpretations of the effects of a natural process that generates fear in responses to imagined dangers as in a nightmare. With support, guidance, exposure, and information, phobic people learn in individual and group settings to confront, control, and understand their phobic experience.

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