Phobias-punisment rather than avoidance.

imageA recent paper in The Journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment tackles the way we learn to fear everyday objects. Scared of bridges, airplanes or talking on the radio? This article explains that it is the way these things punish you that may maintain your phobia.

http://www.dovepress.com/a-discriminated-conditioned-punishment-model-of-phobia-peer-reviewed-article-NDT

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