Human fear conditioning research since Watson's case study on “Little Albert” has vastly
evolved and its impact today is reaching far beyond phobic anxiety. This review focuses on …

Analogue samples are often used to study obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptoms and
related phenomena. This approach is based on the hypothesis that results derived from …

Research from recent decades has highlighted the distinction between excitatory and
inhibitory Pavlovian learning mechanisms. Based on this distinction, state-of-the-art …

Exposure therapy is an effective approach for treating anxiety disorders, although a
substantial number of individuals fail to benefit or experience a return of fear after treatment …

In the context of clinical anxiety, safety behaviors are actions performed to prevent, escape,
or minimize feared catastrophes and/or associated distress. Research consistently …

From an experienced clinician and a prominent psychotherapy researcher, this book
synthesizes the evidence base for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and translates it into …

An ever-growing number of transdiagnostic processes that maintain psychopathology
across disorders have been identified. However, such processes are not consistently …

Panic disorder and agoraphobia tend to be chronic conditions, often with an unremitting
course, considerable social, occupational, and physical disability, and high rates of …

While many researchers have largely focused on principles of systematic desensitization
and habituation in explaining fear extinction, these processes have mixed evidence at best …

This paper is part of a series that explores the application of different therapies to a case of
obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). It describes the application of an optimizing …