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“reciprocal inhibition and desensitization”
reciprocal inhibition and desensitization (s) (noun); reciprocal inhibitions and desensitizations (pl)
In psychiatry, a form of behavior therapy in which the patient, while made to relax in comfortable surroundings, is gradually exposed to increasing amounts of anxiety-provoking stimuli.
In this way the patient can tolerate these stimuli and may eventually learn to dissociate the anxiety from them.
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habit-, hab-, -hibit; habili-, habil-
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