device for automated desensitization

a computerized system for applying desensitization therapy to the treatment of focused phobic behavior. The device administers visual or audio instructions for muscle relaxation and visualization of feared stimuli arranged in a hierarchical order. See also covert desensitization; systematic desensitization.

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