![]() ![]() A pilot study revealed that depressed pregnant women also improved after affect phobia therapy. Randomized controlled trials showed no significant differences between affect phobia therapy and cognitive therapy at posttreatment and two-year follow-up among Cluster C personality disorders, and a greater symptom decrease in affect phobia therapy than in a controlled condition among depression and anxiety disorders. Affect phobias’ hypothesized origins in childhood and their disorder specificity have not been investigated empirically. The results suggest that the assessment of affect phobias has been neglected. Eighteen empirical studies respected the inclusion criteria. A search of the literature was conducted using Medline and PsycINFO. The objective of this article is to review empirical evidence on the theory of psychopathology, treatment efficacy, and proposed process of change of the affect phobia model, a form of short-term dynamic psychotherapy reformulated into a behavioral framework developed by Leigh McCullough. ![]()
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