defusion

noun2

1. •
   (nonstandard) The act of defusing.

   • The loss of the collections was immediately reported to General Petrov and he detailed a special team of engineers and mine defusion experts to aid the men of the 164th battalion in their search. — 1987
2. •
   The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.

   • […] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct functions of these events. — 1994