What is "phobic"

Usage examples of "phobic".

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.

Soon I had certain proof that my friend was a major closet food phobic when she spent five minutes painstakingly separating her appetizer into two piles.

From a purely behavioristic standpoint, if the phobic reaction is gone, then the phobia is cured.

And he was also a fellow Silesian, with the same near phobic respect for the Royal Manticoran Navy.

Thus, the Cognitive therapist asks the patient to behaviorally check out his/her dire "it's hopeless" predictions or conclusions, or the Rational-Emotive therapist directs the shy client to find out it isn't awful to be turned down for a date, or Bandura helps a snake phobic with a "I can't do it" attitude to gradually approach a small snake and learn for certain "I can handle it," etc.

Inc has a violent phobic thing about vermin and waste and insects and overall facility hygiene, and Orkin men with beer-bellies and playing cards with naked girls in high-heeled shoes on the backs (McKenna's claim) spray the bejeesus out of the E.

Down limitless reaches of sunless pavement a spark of light flickered in the malodorous wind and I drew behind the enormous circumference of a Cyclopic column that I might escape for a while the horror that was stalking million-footed toward me through gigantic hypostyles of inhuman dread and phobic antiquity.

Not only must the man eradicate my phobic body odour but he has to make me invisible once more.

Now merely the sight of a vast open space, with no walls or sheltering roof, could trigger a phobic reaction.

The age-old coping mechanisms of denial, withdrawal, phobic reaction and regression expressed themselves in response to brand-new mental crises.

There were those rare creatures who suffered from a phobic reaction to authority but finding four of them together was unlikely.

Psychiatrists claim one third of phobics improve with 6 months of drug treatment.

Of course, these dire expectations, that phobics desperately try to avoid, can't ordinarily be produced even when they try hard to do so.

They might have a new ultra-powerful synthetic detergent which will obliterate my phobic body odour, at least for a time.

You probably won't believe this, dear, but I was so phobic about elevators that I couldn't have children until Walnut Creek got a hospital with a delivery room on the ground floor.