PHOBIAS

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• Phobias — This is a list that has been stewing on my hard drive for several years, defining 136 phobias, irrational or pathological fears of various things. The reason I ve resisted is that someone else has done a far more thorough job than I could ever do …   Phrontistery dictionary

• phobias — pho·bi·a || fəʊbɪə n. strong and persistent irrational fear …   English contemporary dictionary

• List of phobias — This article is about the suffix phobia. For the class of psychological disorders, see Phobia. Contents 1 Psychological conditions 1.1 Animal phobias …   Wikipedia

• Anxiety and Phobias —    Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities.    In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• Фобии (phobias) — Ф. это иррациональный страх, к рый может проявляться в виде боязни специфических одушевленных и неодушевленных объектов, напр. боязнь змей (офидиофобия); страх перед определенной группой или классом людей (ксенофобия, боязнь чужаков; андрофобия,… …   Психологическая энциклопедия

• Phobia — A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning fear or morbid fear ) is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically… …   Wikipedia

• Cynophobia — (pronounced /ˌsaɪnəˈfoʊbiə/, US dict: sī′·nə·fō′·bē·ə, from the Greek: κύων kýōn dog and φόβος phóbos fear ) is the abnormal fear of dogs. Cynophobia is classified as a specific phobia, under the subtype animal phobias .[1] According to …   Wikipedia

• Claustrophobia — This article is about the fear of enclosed spaces. For 2004 film, see Claustrophobia (2004 film). For 2008 film, see Claustrophobia (2008 film). Getting caught in a small hole, due to cave ins or suddenly finding the den of a dangerous animal,… …   Wikipedia

• mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …   Universalium

• Trypanophobia — is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, belonephobia, or enetophobia, names that are technically incorrect because they simply denote a “fear of… …   Wikipedia