Simple, effective treatment of agoraphobia.
For effective treatment of agoraphobia both patient and therapist must understand the mechanisms of sensitization and self-desensitization. Rather than aiming to adapt to difficult situations, to achieve desensitization by suggestions, or to avoid panic, the agoraphobe must learn to pass through panic and to rid oneself of drug dependency. This method of self-desensitization will, as a rule, achieve results quickly and does not necessarily depend upon finding the cause of the original sensitization.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000523:psychology; D010200:Panic; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D012095:Repression-Sensitization; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology