What is "desensitizing"

Usage examples of "desensitizing".

All flight training had a certain amount of desensitizing built into it.

Not until Project Mercury had there been a flight training program so long and detailed, so sophisticated, and yet so heavily devoted to desensitizing the trainee, to adapting out man's ordinary fears, and enabling one to think and use his hands normally in a novel environment.

It took two main forms: the desensitizing or adapting out of the fears that a rocket flight would ordinarily hold for the animal (just confining an untrained chimpanzee in a Mercury capsule would have driven him berserk with fear).

The first desensitizing pellets had not wholly lost their effect when he added more.

Many other psychologists would do the opposite, namely, focus on relaxation and desensitizing the nervousness, and forget speech skills.

For example, you can reduce feelings of inferiority, shame, and guilt by being a high achiever and behaving morally (level l, chapter 11), by desensitizing yourself or using stress inoculation (level 2, chapter 12), by learning new skills (level 3, chapter 13), and by recognizing the sources of your low self-esteem in childhood and lovingly reassuring the scared little boy/girl still within you (level 5, chapter 15).

For many unaccepting people it would be easier (than forgiveness--see chapter 7) to try desensitizing our emotions (chapter 12), determinism (chapter 14), challenging our irrational ideas (chapter 14), and gaining insight into the origin of the dislike (chapters 7 & 15).

This business with Tylendel and his twin and the feud, for instance - I would never have thought of this solution - desensitizing him, weaning him into thinking about it logically by bringing him to the edge over and over but never letting him slip past that edge.