Mary Cover Jones
American psychiatrist
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development of behaviour therapy
- In mental disorder: Development of behavior therapy
…small boy, and in 1924 Mary Cover Jones reported the extinction of phobias in children by gradual desensitization. Modern behavior therapy began with the description by the South African psychiatrist Joseph Wolpe of his technique of systematically desensitizing patients with phobias, beginning by exposing them to the least-feared object or…
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