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To evaluate and compare the therapeutic efficacy of systematic desensitization and insight-oriented psychotherapy in reducing performance anxiety during public speaking.

October 1, 1966Archives of General Psychiatry

Insight vs Desensitization in Psychotherapy: An Experiment in Anxiety Reduction.

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GSGeorge SaslowBarnes-Jewish Hospital

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Randomized trial reveals reductions in public speaking performance anxiety in college students, highlighting differences between insight therapy and systematic desensitization.

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To evaluate and compare the therapeutic efficacy of systematic desensitization and insight-oriented psychotherapy in reducing performance anxiety during public speaking.
Randomized trial evaluating 96 college students identified with severe public speaking anxiety from a screened cohort of 710 candidates.
Participants were rated on a performance anxiety checklist during a test speech alongside a battery of personality and anxiety scales.
Subjects were randomly assigned by checklist scores to systematic desensitization, insight-oriented treatment, attention-placebo treatment, contacted no-treatment controls, or no-contact controls (n=22).
Behavioral performance anxiety during speech testing and standardized psychological scales served as primary metrics across treatment conditions.
Outcomes qualitatively differentiated the behavioral effects of systematic desensitization and insight-oriented approaches from attention-placebo and control groups (numerical effect estimates not reported in abstract).

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George Saslow (1966) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8db705b4e2d843785bed6e https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1966.01730160107021

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Randomized trial reveals reductions in public speaking performance anxiety in college students, highlighting differences between insight therapy and systematic desensitization.

Insight vs Desensitization in Psychotherapy: An Experiment in Anxiety Reduction.

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Insight vs Desensitization in Psychotherapy: An Experiment in Anxiety Reduction.

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