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Early reports (e.g. Meyer, 1957; Wolpe, 1958) suggested that behaviour therapy might prove to be a rapid and effective treatment, but a small series studied by Meyer and Gelder (1963) demonstrated that results were not always as effective as single case reports suggested, and showed clearly that the treatment was often lengthy, taking 80 hours on the average. 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