Hall has cited the cat-phobia in illustration that the belief that Dr.
In a few days, when he had become more clearly conscious of his phobia and had slept better, the tic grew appreciably less.
In point of fact, he had a true phobia against crabs, crayfish, lobsters and the like; if he saw one, he always felt as if he were going to have a new crisis.
There is one phobiathat is so wide-spread, a Cure is not even thought of--hypochondria.
If that phobia isn't brought to the surface and Cured, it may arise any time and endanger other people.
The same explanation, then, which applies to the phobia applies also to the dream of anxiety.
The phobia is thrown before the anxiety like a fortress on the frontier.
If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.
And again small steps lead from here to the case of the psychasthenic sufferer whose phobia does not allow him to cross any square and where reënforced suggestion has to break open the ways for the walking movement when the square is reached.
The content of thephobia has about the same importance for it as the manifest dream facade has for the dream.
Every hysteria phobia can be traced to childish fear of which it is a continuation, even if it has another content and must therefore receive a different name.
The phobia is comparable to a fortification against outer danger, which is represented by the much feared libido.
The regression to infantile phobia is the bridge where the transformation of libido into fear is conveniently effected.
Curiously enough her phobia is not related to a particular word, and moreover her articulation is accurate and not embarrassed in presence of certain of the consonants.
Sometimes the disorders of the mind include hallucinations, and various forms of phobia or mania.
Phobia means only "fear" in Greek, but the term is much more satisfying to nervous people than the shorter but too definite English term, dread, or fear.
These names are long and mouth-filling and consequently satisfying, and most people who are suffering from a particular phobia are almost sure to think that they have a very special affliction.
Neuropsychologists seem to take a special pleasure in inventing some new phobia or at least giving us a fine long Greek name for a set of symptoms by no means new and that might well be explained in simpler terms.
Almost any function of the body may become the subject of a dread or phobia that may interfere even seriously with it.
Maybe he had forced himself to go with her and the power of his lifelong phobia had wiped it from his memory.
I can't go into space unless I can find some way of lifting, even temporarily, this phobia that nearly drives me crazy at the thought of going out there.
No matter how much overlay you pile on top of such a phobia to suppress it, it will continue to haunt you.
I must not go near the railway"; and he develops a phobia for cars.
She had been afraid of menstruation and of marriage, and had at this time almost a phobia for pregnancy and childbirth.
She was suffering from attacks of nausea, which recurred every five to ten days with intense pain through the eyes, and with photo-phobia or fear of light.
I'd picked up a nice phobia against space when the super-liner Lauri Ellu cracked up with four hundred passengers on my first watch as second engineer.
If I'd known anything about Pietro's expedition, I'd have wrapped myself in my phobia and loved it.
I am indebted to Otto Rank for the report of a case of dog phobia in an intelligent young man whose explanation of how he acquired his ailment sounds remarkably like the totem theory of the Aruntas mentioned above.
But her manifest systematic phobia concerned the mention of death in general, in which her husband was altogether eliminated and never became the object of conscious solicitude.
He tells, in relating the history of an illness, that a nine year old boy suffered from a dog phobia at the age of four.
In cities the choice of animals which can become the object of phobia is not great.
The form in which taboo manifests itself has the greatest similarity to the touching phobia of neurotics, the Delire de toucher.
The phobia is as a rule in regard to animals for which the child has until then shown the liveliest interest and has nothing to do with the individual animal.
I am not prepared to assert that the wide-spread mouse and rat phobiahas the same mechanism.
In another stage of solution of the phobia he did not scruple to identify his parents with other large animals[193].
The origin of the phobia is not always clear, but given the necessary susceptibility, circumstances doubtless dictate the direction the phobia shall take.
A phobia is an insistent and engrossing fear, without adequate cause as judged by ordinary standards.
Unless the fear of sleeplessness becomes a full grownphobia no anxiety need be felt.
The phobia is almost universal; it has permeated all classes of society from highest to lowest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phobia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
