1. Known as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), the approach seems to be beneficial and is recommended by the U.K.'s health advisory body NICE.

2. The desensitisation of young men to gratuitously violent sexual acts is happening.

3. The desensitisation of two kinds of water-bearing explosive, the water gel explosive and emulsion explosive sensitized by perlite, under dynamic pressure is studied by means of experimental method.

4. The most successful and common treatment is the process of "desensitisation" which involves a slow exposure to the phobia source.

5. Another prediction made by the desensitisation hypothesis is that individual tolerance should increase with exposure, and therefore with age.

6. Men with potential were sent to torture school and underwent a process of desensitisation.

7. With use of electric delay detonator No 5, two kinds of explosive have more serious desensitisation as compared with using electric delay detonator No 2.

8. There is the same pattern of exposure, addiction, and desensitisation to increasingly hardcore images.

9. Doctors at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge said they had developed a successful desensitisation programme which builds up tolerance in patients by slowly exposing them to tiny doses of peanut.