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Definition of Phobias

1. phobia [n] - See also: phobia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phobias

Literary usage of Phobias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"Gastric Obsessions and phobias*—A neurasthenic is afflicted with vague dyspeptic troubles. He has no definite symptomatology; neither vomiting, ..."

2. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"A variety of phobias have been described, and their number could be increased at the pleasure of a writer if it were not undesirable to give new names to ..."

3. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"These emotions of anxiety are known under the name of phobias and are connected essentially with the fear of disease. Relief from this anxiety conditions ..."

4. The Psychic treatment of nervous disorders: (The Psychoneuroses and Their by Paul Dubois (1909)
"On these foundations phobias and scruples arise which are further exaggerated by reading books on popular medicine. In short, in the hysterical patient the ..."

5. Psychopathology by Edward John Kempf (1920)
"The difference between compulsions and phobias usually lies in the manner in ... phobias are usually due to fears of having tabooed cravings: therefore, ..."

6. The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders: (The Psychoneuroses and Their by Paul Dubois, Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1908)
"... the attention dwell upon the sexual organs, or of onan- ism and licentious thoughts. On these foundations phobias and scruples arise which are further ..."

7. The Relief of Pain by Mental Suggestion: A Study of the Moral and Religious by Loring Woart Batten (1917)
"... B. Comprehension of phobias The analysis of cases like these enables us to comprehend some human conditions which otherwise are a mystery. ..."

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