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bogleech:

Based on methods already proven to work. Even people who previously had panic attacks at only drawings of spiders or the word “spider” have been literally cured of the phobia with an almost perfect success rate in these 2-4 hour one-time sessions.

This is likely because no matter how severe it is, arachnophobia is not “hard wired” into anybody. It’s not derived from any natural instinct, since no wild spider is consistently dangerous enough for such a response to evolve.