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TRANSFORMATION OF MEANING AND ITS EFFECTS ON COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL TREATMENT OF AN INJECTION PHOBIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Dóra Perczel-Forintos  and
Ann Hackmann
Dóra Perczel-Forintos
Affiliation:
Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Ann Hackmann
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, U.K.
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Abstract

A five session cognitive behavioural treatment of an injection phobia is described, in which the patient’s dysfunctional attitudes about not being able to control events played a central role. The extreme negative meaning of the phobic situation was explored, and then the patient was asked to say when in her life she could first remember having those types of thoughts and emotions. This helped her to understand some of the origins of her fear, and then to transform the negative meaning into a more realistic positive one. The “Stress-In-Dynamic-Context” model of acquisition of phobias was used to understand factors other than simple pairing of stimuli that might have been involved in the triggering of her phobia.

Keywords

Injection phobiabrief cognitive therapytransformation of meaningemotional bridge“Stress-in-Dynamic-Context”
Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , September 1999 , pp. 369 - 375
Copyright
© 1999 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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