[On treating phobias]
So I'll have to get into a bath full of spiders?
You can do it two ways. You can do a graded desensitization, where you're gradually exposed to spiders, or you can do something called flooding, where you just get chucked in with them.
This is cognitive therapy, isn't it?
Well, it's more sort of behavioural therapy really, because it's cheap.
I think I'll settle with just screaming like a girl and running around the house, if that's alright with you.
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