Treatment of an obsessional patient using habituation to audiotaped ruminations.
A single case where persistent and pervasive ruminations were treated by intensive audiotaped exposure to the ruminations themselves is reported. Exposure at two levels produced significant effects in an interrupted time series analysis of daily frequency, and the patient was rumination free at the end of treatment and at 6 months follow-up.
D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D013637:Tape Recording