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deconditioning

Definition of deconditioning

noun

Psychiatry
  • the reform or reversal of previously conditioned behaviour, especially in the treatment of phobia and other anxiety disorders in which the fear response to certain stimuli is brought under control: anxiety reactions triggered by specific stimuli may be subject to deconditioningCompare with counter-conditioning.

deconditioning in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of deconditioning in the US English dictionary