What is the desensitization method?

What is the desensitization method?

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The desensitization method for phobia is basically means that gradually you confront the thing that you're afraid of. You start off with a small way. For example, let's say that someone's afraid of spiders. They might start off by looking at a picture of a spider, just a picture of a spider. And then the next step might be that they look at a spider in a box across the room, and they get closer and closer. And the last step of desensitization would be that they're holding the spider in their hand and they're letting it crawl down their arm.