Studies

• Wolpe (1960) used flooding to treat a 9 year old girl with a phobia of cars, as they forced the girl to sit in the car, whilst they drove around for 4 hours. Eventually, her hysteria subsided and her phobia of cars was cured.
• Barlow found flooding to be equally as effective as systematic desensitisation, however found that as a result of potential ethical issues - systematic desensitisation is often favoured.