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Prior to behavior therapies, what type of therapy was used for the treatment of phobias?

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Treatments: Prayer, mesmerism, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, time spent at mental hygiene hospitals, a range of experiments with drugs all preceded behavioral exposure therapies.

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Answered 5/12/2016

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