{"id":77549,"date":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/joseph-wolpe-1915-1997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","slug":"joseph-wolpe-1915-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/joseph-wolpe-1915-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Wolpe (1915\u20131997)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African and American psychiatrist and psychotherapist, creator of the method of systematic desensitization, pioneer in the field of behavioral psychotherapy. Systematic desensitization is a method of psychotherapy developed by Wolpe, aimed at treating phobias and anxiety disorders. It is based on the principle of reciprocal inhibition: anxiety or fear can be weakened if at the same time there is a factor that counteracts this anxiety or fear.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African and American psychiatrist and psychotherapist, creator of the method of systematic desensitization, pioneer in the field of behavioral psychotherapy. Systematic desensitization is a method of psychotherapy developed by Wolpe, aimed at treating phobias and anxiety disorders. It is based on the principle of reciprocal inhibition: anxiety or fear can be weakened if at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-1-distinguished-psychologists-and-their-contribution-to-the-development-of-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}