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It's what in certain circles they call a counterphobic reaction, I guess, which is you get frightened by something, and finally you decide instead of staying frightened by it, you join it.
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It's what in certain circles they call a counterphobic reaction, I guess, which is you get frightened by something, and finally you decide instead of staying frightened by it, you join it.
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It's what in certain circles they call a counterphobic reaction, I guess, which is you get frightened by something, and finally you decide instead of staying frightened by it, you join it.
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It's what in certain circles they call a counterphobic reaction, I guess, which is you get frightened by something, and finally you decide instead of staying frightened by it, you join it.
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It's what in certain circles they call a counterphobic reaction, I guess, which is you get frightened by something, and finally you decide instead of staying frightened by it, you join it.
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Dr. Roderic Gorney, of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, has seen people exhibit counterphobic behavior -- like scuba diving because they're afraid of drowning.
Disaster And Denial 2008
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Flooding, they called it: the most extreme and successful form of counterphobic programming.
Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003
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While the boys stockpiled their counterphobic fantasy objects—that is, those items of play that children gravitate toward in order to master their anxieties about someday being full grown-ups who run the world, who win—the girls were amassing theirs, in the form of Barbies, those beautiful women with “female power” who the girls hoped one day to become.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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While the boys stockpiled their counterphobic fantasy objects—that is, those items of play that children gravitate toward in order to master their anxieties about someday being full grown-ups who run the world, who win—the girls were amassing theirs, in the form of Barbies, those beautiful women with “female power” who the girls hoped one day to become.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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A common out come is low self-esteem, with compensatory maladaptive patterns of appeasement and overcompliance, or swaggering bravado, anxiety, and provocative, risk-taking, counterphobic, macho, aggressive behavior.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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