implosion therapy

1. 1.

   a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them

   Synonymsflooding

   Broaderbehavior therapy

Questions about implosion therapy

What does implosion therapy mean?

implosion therapy means "a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them".

What is another word for implosion therapy?

Close synonyms include flooding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is implosion therapy a common word?

implosion therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.