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Desensitization Therapy and Arachnophobia Treatment

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bugs. They may prevent people from even going out of their homes or flying on airplanes. Phobias essentially curtail activities as it prevents its victims from living normal lives.  There are four categories of specific phobias and they are situational phobia, a fear of the natural environment, animal phobia, and blood-injection-injury phobia (Wood & Wood, 1999). Within the  categorizations are a myriad of phobias. In focusing on arachnophobia--or a fear of spiders--that obviously falls into the fear of animals category. Swift (1995) explains that according  to psychiatrist Nanette Orman, the fear of animals, also known as zoophobia, is probably the most common form of phobia. It is something that includes a variety of  fears under its umbrella, inclusive of arachnophobia (1995). It is important to distinguish an abnormal reaction to animals as compared with a reaction that simply displays disinterest  or disgust. Many people are in fact squeamish around certain animals like spiders or snakes or bees, but a zoophobic will turn pale or consciously avoid the animal or feel  faint at even the thought of the feared thing (1995). On the positive side, most animals fears are limited to one stimulus (Swift, 1995). Some people are afraid of  just dogs or just cats and because it is so limited, zoophobics simply manage the condition by avoidance (1995). On the other hand, people who are afraid of going  out of their homes have a real debilitating condition. However, people who are simply afraid of dogs or cats can just avoid going into homes that contain those pets, or  simply crossing the street if they see such an animal outside. This condition of course can be cumbersome, but much depends on the feared animal. If someone is afraid of