Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders, then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar, and finally a live spider loose in the room. At each stage, he made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This technique is known as ________.

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The technique described is desensitization, a type of therapy used to gradually reduce someone's anxiety or fear towards a specific stimulus or situation by exposing them to it in a controlled and safe manner. The other options (free association, aversive conditioning, transactional therapy) do not accurately describe the technique used in this scenario.

Julian Seeks Professional Help for His Fear of Spiders