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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of psychotherapy that uses basic learning techniques to treat mental illness.
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- noun psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
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