A behavioural treatment that works to replace a fear response with a feeling of relaxation
Systematic desensitisation

1. Stage 1: Training in deep relaxation
2. Stage 2: Imagining anxiety-provoking situations and creating a fear hierarchy
3. Stage 3: Working through the hierarchy using imagination or real-life exposure
McGrath's study on treating a 9-year-old girl's noise phobia using systematic desensitisation was effective, but the initial session inappropriately involved bursting a balloon in front of the girl
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

A combination of cognitive therapy and behaviour therapy, helping to replace irrational thinking with rational thoughts and addressing behavioural responses
Dream analysis (psychodynamic)

Freud proposed that dreams are a window into the unconscious mind, with the manifest dream content representing displaced and symbolic representations of unconscious conflicts
