psychoanalysis: counterphobia

This defense mechanism involves deliberate approach of the object of one's fear or phobia.

Also: counterphobic, counter phobia, counter phobic

• Fearless Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini 1993
• Man on Wire Philippe Petit 2008
• Passengers Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, David Morse, and Andre Braugher 2008
• Up Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, and Christopher Plummer 2009

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