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Persistent negative attitude can undo effectiveness of exposure therapy for phobias

February 26, 2013 by

Because confronting fear won’t always make it go away, researchers suggest that people with phobias must alter memory-driven negative attitudes about feared objects or events to achieve a more lasting recovery from what scares them the most.

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