What Exposure Therapy Reveals About the Mind-Body Connection
<p>Show don’t tell. It’s the first rule of good creative writing. If you want readers to believe that your grizzled detective is volatile, you don’t tell them “Detective Jack Loosecannon is volatile,” you show him punching the police commissioner.</p>
<p>Exposure therapy operates on a similar principle. “You can talk with a patient for years about how spiders are harmless, but if that person’s brain associates spiders with terror, all that talk probably won’t make much difference,” says Arash Javanbakht, MD, a psychiatrist and director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic at Wayne State University in Detroit. “The best way to counteract that association is to expose the brain to the feared situation.”</p>
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