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Blood-Injury-Injection Fears and Fainting: Nature, Assessment, and Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Andrew C. Page
Andrew C. Page*
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6907, Australia. E-mail: andrew@psy.uwa.edu.au
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Blood-injection-injury phobia involves stimulus-bound fear and faintness. The present paper outlines a program of research that has been investigating the nature of symptoms elicited by these stimuli. The structure of the symptoms and their heritability is examined, and it is speculated that the symptoms may form a triphasic response of anticipatory anxiety, stimulus-bound fear, and faintness. The treatments for blood-injury-injection phobia are examined, and data suggesting ways to improve existing treatments are outlined.

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Behaviour Change , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 160 - 164
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Copyright © The Authors 1998

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