... with the person's daily routine - occupational functioning and social activities. A person can develop a specific phobia of anything, but in most cases the phobia is shared by many and has a name. Animal phobias - cynophobia (dogs), equinophobia (horses), zoophobia (all animals) - are common. So are arachnophobia (spiders) and ophidophobia (snakes). And of course, there's the fear of flying (pterygophobia), heights ... R.J., 1990). It involves three steps: ~ training the patient to physically relax ~ establishing an anxiety hierarchy of the stimuli involved ~ counter-conditioning relaxat...

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