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noun Psychiatry.

a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.

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Also called implosive therapy.

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How to use implosion therapy in a sentence

Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
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I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.
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The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.
China’s Electroshock Gay-Conversion Case|Nina Strochlic|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.
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And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.
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In serum therapy antitoxins are artificially excited into being in the blood of beasts.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
Thus far we have considered only the scientific aspects of amorphous phosphorus therapy.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
The first who wrote upon the therapy of cinchona was Barba, a Spanish physician, whose work was printed in Seville in 1642.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park
In ten minutes, she had the slow-implosion capsule out of the hopper of a battered old Aldebaranese cargo ship.
Equation of Doom|Gerald Vance
In them we have every phase of modern therapy that has the strong element of suggestion in it.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh