For telecommunications, desensitization is a form of electromagnetic interference where a radio receiver is unable to receive the full strength of a radio signal....
For medical purposes, desensitization is a method to reduce or eliminate an organism's negative reaction to a substance or stimulus.For example, if a person with diabetes mellitus has a bad allergy to taking a full dose of beef insulin, the doctor gives the person a very small amount of the insulin at first....
In psychology, desensitization is a process for mitigating the harmful effects of phobias or other mental illnesss. It also occurs when an emotional response is repeatedly evoked in situations in which the action tendency that is associated with the emotion proves irrelevant or unnecessary....
