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29: Avoidance

Circle of Willis

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The Freudian Concept of Extinction

In the late 50s, a psychiatrist out of South Africa named Joseph Wohlpe started developing something called systematic desensitization. And it's based on the idea of extinction or habituation, but trying to operate still within a Freudian context,. Especially if you're a psychiatrist, that's still true often.

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