counterphobia
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Etymology edit
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counterphobia (countable and uncountable, plural counterphobias)
- (psychology) A compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.
- 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
- Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]