Crossword clues for phobia
phobia
- Irrational dread
- What many people have for public speaking
- Ungrounded fear
- Therapy focus
- Shrink's topic
- Malady in the film "Vertigo"
- Major fear
- It commonly involves spiders
- Irrational aversion
- Irrational anxiety
- Hypnotherapy target
- Flying, for Erica Jong?
- Fear of spiders, usually
- Fear of spiders, for one
- Exposure therapy can treat one
- Compulsive aversion
- Cause for inaction, sometimes
- Cause for inaction, maybe
- You may have one for spiders
- Fear, plus
- An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations
- Exaggerated fear
- Intense fear
- Abnormal fear
- Obsession
- Morbid fear
- Fear of imitation ale, some might say
- Irrational fear of something
- Great fear
- Overwhelming fear
- High anxiety
- Psychologist's concern
- Persistent dread
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"irrational fear, horror, aversion," 1786, perhaps on model of similar use in French, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Greek -phobia, from phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object of fear or terror," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (compare phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE root *bhegw- "to run" (cognates: Lithuanian begu "to flee;" Old Church Slavonic begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run;" Old Norse bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895.
Wiktionary
n. An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.
WordNet
n. an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias" [syn: phobic disorder, phobic neurosis]
Wikipedia
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent fear of an object or situation. The phobia typically results in a rapid onset of fear and is present for more than six months. The affected person will go to great lengths to avoid the situation or object, typically to a degree greater than the actual danger posed. If the feared object or situation cannot be avoided, the affected person will have significant distress. With blood or injury phobia fainting may occur. Agoraphobia is often associated with panic attacks. Usually a person has phobias to a number of objects or situations.
Phobias can be divided into specific phobias, social phobia, and agoraphobia. Types of specific phobias include to certain animals, natural environment situations, blood or injury, and specific situations. The most common are fear of spiders, fear of snakes, and fear of heights. Occasionally they are triggered by a negative experience with the object or situation. Social phobia is when the situation is feared as the person is worried about others judging them. Agoraphobia is when fear of a situation occurs because it is felt that escape would not be possible.
Specific phobias should be treated with exposure therapy where the person is introduced to the situation or object in question until the fear resolves. Medications are not useful in this type of phobia. Social phobia and agoraphobia are often treated with some combination of counselling and medication. Medications used include antidepressants, benzodiazepines, or beta-blockers.
Specific phobias affect about 6-8% of people in the Western world and 2-4% of people in Asian, Africa, and Latin America in a given year. Social phobia affects about 7% of people in the united states and 0.5-2.5% of people in the rest of the world. Agoraphobia affects about 1.7% of people. Women are affected about twice as often as men. Typically onset is around the age of 10 to 17. Rates become lower as people get older. People with phobias are at a higher risk of suicide.
Phobia is a fictional DC Comics supervillain of the New Teen Titans.
Phobia is the third studio album by American rock band Breaking Benjamin. It was recorded at The Barbershop Studios in Hopatcong, New Jersey and released August 8, 2006 through Hollywood Records and November 21, 2007 in Europe.
Phobia, released in 1993, was the twenty-fourth and final studio album by English rock group The Kinks before they disbanded three years later. This is the only studio album credited to The Kinks which does not feature former drummer Mick Avory in any capacity; though he left the band in 1984, he still played on individual songs on both Think Visual and UK Jive.
Phobia is a grindcore band from Orange County, California. The band was formed in 1990 and is heavily influenced by crust punk and grindcore. Their lyrical content focuses mainly on socio-political issues and anarchism.
Phobia is a thriller film released in 1980. The film stars Paul Michael Glaser from TV's Starsky and Hutch. It was directed by John Huston for Paramount Pictures.
Phobia is a 1988 Australian film written and directed by John Dingwall.
Phobia, also known by its original title of Alone, is a 2013 horror film and the feature film directorial debut of Rory Douglas Abel. The movie had its world premiere on 3 November 2013 at the Drunken Zombie Film Festival and stars Michael Jefferson as an agoraphobic widower that begins to believe that he is being haunted by his wife's specter.
A phobia is an irrational fear.
Phobia may also refer to:
- -phobia, about the suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe
- Phobia (comics), a supervillain in the DC Comics universe
- Phobia (1980 film), a 1980 film directed by John Huston
- Phobia (2008 film), also known as 4bia, a Thai horror film
- Phobia (2013 film), an American independent horror film
- Phobia (2016 film)
- Phobia 2, the 2009 sequel to the 2008 Thai film
- Phobia (Hindi film)
In music:
- Phobia (band), a US grindcore band
- Phobia (Breaking Benjamin album)
- Phobia (The Kinks album)
- …Phobia, an album by Benassi Bros.
- "Phobia", a song on the album Outcast by Kreator
Phobia is a 2016 Indian psychological thriller film, directed by Pavan Kirpalani and produced by Viki Rajani. The film stars Radhika Apte in the leading role as Mehak, an artist suffering from severe agoraphobia. Produced jointly by Eros International and Next Gen Films, it released on 27 May 2016.
Development began in 2015, when Rajani signed Radhika Apte for a film to be made under his banner. Rajani worked on the script, with principal photography taking place in Mumbai. The film features music by Daniel B George. The film features one song. The lyrics for song were written by Jay Shankar Prasad. Phobia released on 27 May 2016 to positive response, with praise centered on Apte's performance. Apart from Apte's performance, film's other production elements and picturisation, background score and special effect works were also praised by the critics and audiences.
Usage examples of "phobia".
I contemplated food phobias, the more I became convinced that people who habitually avoid certifiably delicious foods are at least as troubled as people who avoid sex, or take no pleasure from it, except that the latter will probably seek psychiatric help, while food phobics rationalize their problem in the name of genetic inheritance, allergy, vegetarianism, matters of taste, nutrition, food safety, obesity, or a sensitive nature.
In political life, exclusionary legislation, attitudes toward race, the practices of medicine, law, and administration--the sciences contributing to and profiting from the Final Solution--may be understood as political actions, distinguished by delusional percepts regarding the status of Jews, their treatment, and the phobia of them.
From a purely behavioristic standpoint, if the phobic reaction is gone, then the phobia is cured.
The flatlander phobia is a bone-deep dread of being cut off from Earth.
The phobia of defilement allows the group to condone actions such as ghettoization, purging, and killing, which assure the integrity of the boundaries between pure and impure.
Was Mossman afraid of a gas attack or did he suffer from a Howard Hughes germ phobia?
All of us who lived through those days came out the other side mumbling under our breaths, quivering with twitches, tics, and phobias.
It is interesting that strong human phobias tend to be directed towards relatively harmless objects or vague, general situations--strangers, darkness, heights, insects, mice, meeting people, etc.
For social phobias and other situations requiring skills, the learning of useful skills is critical before or soon after reducing the fear response in the situation.
But, persons who were neglected as children are prone to develop phobias and panic attacks.
For Joel, whose life had always been ruled by his limitless phobias and fears, this was heaven on earth.
Wales afterward were full of anxieties and short breath, phobias and panic.
Soon he knew about the many forms of schizophrenia, as well as other psychoses, neuroses, paranoias, and an entire alphabet of phobias.
I don't know if it's some weird kind of aesthetic thing or a psychological phobia, or maybe even a physical fact of its existence the way we can't help flinching if someone makes like to punch us, for instance and I don't care.
We have lots of words for human-mind bugsparanoias, catatonias, phobias, neuroses, irrationalities.