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Like classical phobias, Affect Phobias can be treated by “systematic desensitization”—helping the patient to experience progressively higher levels of the feared emotion (grief in the example above), while reducing associated inhibitory feelings such as anxiety or shame.

These inhibitory affects then thwart the use of natural, healthy activating feeling responses such as grief, assertion, closeness, or self-esteem. Common examples of these ''Affect Phobias'' are guilt over anger, embarrass- ment about crying, pain over closeness, or shame about oneself.

Abstract. Affect phobia therapy (APT) is an integrative psychodynamic therapy that seeks to help patients function better by resolving emotional conflict through reducing their avoidance of adaptive, activating emotions. The central goal of APT is to help people experience and express their emotions in an adaptive way.

The hallmarks of affect phobia are avoidance of strong emotions in self or others, minimization of natural expression of emotions, and even taking pride in being strong or “stoic.” Similarly, they may tell someone in distress not to be vulnerable, sometimes guised as a compliment (you are stronger than that; be a ...

The Affect Phobia Test was developed by McCullough and co-workers simultaneously in English and Norwegian (McCullough, Berggraf, & Ulvenes, 2010) as a screening instrument to estimate fear of affects and the capacity for adaptive affective functioning. It was translated into Swedish in 2012.

These inhibitory affects then thwart the use of natural, healthy activating feeling responses such as grief, assertion, closeness, or self-esteem. Common examples of these ''Affect Phobias'' are guilt over anger, embarrass- ment about crying, pain over closeness, or shame about oneself.

The hallmarks of affect phobia are avoidance of strong emotions in self or others, minimization of natural expression of emotions, and even taking pride in being strong or “stoic.” Similarly, they may tell someone in distress not to be vulnerable, sometimes guised as a compliment (you are stronger than that; be a ...

This phobia test tells you when it is likely that you meet the criteria of a specific phobia, whether or not your symptoms may have reduced due to safety objects or behaviours [1], and if you may suffer from another mental disorder.