WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reciprocal-inhibition therapy
    n 1: a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one
         response by the occurrence of another response that is
         mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might
         be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety
         [syn: reciprocal inhibition, reciprocal-inhibition
         therapy]