Counter-phobic Defense

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A counteraphobic defense (also called counter- phobic behavior ) is the attempt to later actively repeat something that was once passively experienced as triggering fear in order to be able to determine the tolerable level of arousal and thus reduce fear . The fear-inducing situation is repeated playfully, so to speak, whereby u. U. in the child and also in the adult a pleasure could arise. This pleasure can also be described as fearfulness , as it arises in many people, for example, when riding a rollercoaster; overcoming fearful and tense expectation is a pleasure. The pleasure achieved proves that those affected are not really convinced that they have mastered their fear. The increased search for fear-inducing situations is therefore a defense mechanism . The term comes from the Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel (1934, 1939, 1946). Fenichel assumed that fear, as well as sadness or aggression , can be cathected libidinally . One also speaks of the counter-phobic .

Kontraphobisches behavior from behavioral therapy to evaluate vision rather than low (see exposure therapy ). One should therefore only speak of a counteraphobic if the active, as it were addiction- like, seeking out fear-inducing situations represents a psychological limitation.

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Individual evidence

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