between the eating patterns of these children with the habits of their siblings and an additional control group of children. The questionnaire included 32 questions relating to eating, including questions referring to taste aversion to different types of food. The questionnaire was also given out to close contact adults that were aware of the children's eating habits. It was found that the children which had surgery possessed higher scores of feeding difficulties on the questionnaire than the two control groups. The items that contrasted the most between the different groups were "Small bites", "Has to be prompted", "Requires assistance", and "Does not finish". It was concluded that the difficulties in feeding were produced by classical (Pavlovian) conditioning. The unconditional stimuli being the physical damage in the course of the surgery, the obtrusive diagnostic approaches, the vomiting or poor suckling before the surgery had been temporarily paired with swallowing which resulted in the conditioned refraining of swallowing. Treatment Since pseudodysphagia tends to coincide with a mixture of other mental disorders such as generalised anxiety disorder, therapists endorse an extensive and multi-pronged treatment scheme. Such programs address the psychological issues related to pseudodysphagia first, which make the choking phobia easier to oppose later on with retraining schemes and talk therapy which centre on helping the patient learn to relax whilst eating. Proposed treatments include hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and Eye Movement desensitisation and reprocessing. Aversion relief therapy is a commonly used treatment which has been proven to be effective in the field of choking phobias. In this case, the patient is given a small shock to their fingers until they swallow. In order to get relief, the patient will have no other option but to swallow the food since the shock only stops once the action of swallowing occurs. Another possible treatment for pseudodysphagia includes tongue depressors placed on the back of the throat in order for the patient to defeat the anxiety associated with swallowing. (Whitehead and Schuster 1958) Lastly, relaxation sessions can take place before meals. Such treatments include positive visualisation, deep breathing, and guided meditation. Although pharmacotherapy such as low doses of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have been used for treatment, it is more common for behavioural approaches to be used. Additionally, before pseudodysphagia can be diagnosed, it is of the utmost importance to remove any other potential natural conditions which may be actually causing choking symptoms. In this