Behavioural Psychotherapy
- Behavioural Psychotherapy / Volume 15 / Issue 04 / October 1987, pp 381-387
- Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1987
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0141347300012751 (About DOI), Published online: 16 June 2009
Research Article
Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Exposure in Fantasy: A Case Report
R. J. Newella1
a1 Nurse Behaviour Therapist, Prince of Wales Hospital, London N15*
Abstract
A female irritable bowel syndrome sufferer was offered several strategies sequentially for coping with the complaint. Of these, bowel retraining established desired bowel frequency and exposure in fantasy resulted in decreased frequency and intensity of pain attacks. Both of these effects were maintained to 18-month follow-up.
(Received September 1986)
Footnotes
* Now Research Nurse Behaviour Therapist, Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholemew's Hospital, London EC1 7BE, to which address all correspondence should be addressed.
Reprint requests should be sent to R. J. Newell, Research Nurse Behaviour Therapist, Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1 7BE.
