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Could new techniques cure your spider phobia?

Exposure therapy techniques involving real-life spiders are being combined with new methods, such as using interoception or tuning into your heartbeat, to overcome arachnophobia.

Professor Sarah Garfinkel from the University of Sussex met presenter Claudia Hammond to help her overcome a lifelong fear of spiders. Does her session allow her to get closer to Terry the tarantula?

(Image: Arachnophobic, Credit: Getty Images.)

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