ABSTRACT
Implosive treatment procedures developed jointly by T. Stampfl, Golias, and Robert A. Hogan have been used with adults and children. In May 1961, Stampfl presented a paper at the University of Illinois outlining a new form of treatment, implosive therapy, which is based on principles of learning theory. London reviewed implosive therapy in his publication Modes and Morals of Psychotherapy. The treatment technique outlined by Joseph Wolpe possesses certain similarities to implosive therapy. Implosive therapy, its theoretical foundation, and clinical techniques, supplemented by illustrative case histories, are presented in conjunction with the results of empirical research. The clinical relationship is necessary in enlisting the cooperation of the client, and, in the case of psychotics, in forcing him to experience certain feelings, but the nature of the experience and the type of cues the client eventually deals with determine the success of the treatment.
