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Blood–injury–injection phobia and dental phobia

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1998
The present study was carried out to explore the relation between BII phobia and dental phobia. An additional aim was to determine the fainting tendency of dental phobics and BII phobics during an invasive treatment procedure. Participants were 63 patients undergoing treatment in a dental fear clinic, and 173 patients undergoing dental surgery in a ...
Klaas Visser   +5 more
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The orality in phobias

The Psychiatric Quarterly, 1968
An attempt has been made to focus on the orality in the phobic reaction. The fear of losing control of oral hostility and the fear of oral incorporative guilt are ego-threatening and may be handled by phobic avoidance. Aichmophobia or the dread of sharp objects is presented not as an oedipal or castration anxiety but as fundamentally an oral solution ...
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Fears and Phobias

Pediatrics In Review, 1994
Definitions Fears and phobias represent a major segment of the psychological distress experienced by children while growing up. It is important to distinguish between the two. Fears are a normal part of life and usually are most vivid and ubiquitous during childhood.
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Phobias in children

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1983
Although fears are so common in children as to be "normal," phobias associated with prolonged avoidance of ordinary situations are distinctly uncommon, even among children in psychiatric treatment. Three treatment approaches are described, including traditional dynamically oriented psychotherapy and the use of antidepressant medication, with major ...
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Is Trypophobia a Phobia?

Psychological Reports, 2017
In the past 10 years, thousands of people have claimed to be affected by trypophobia, which is the fear of objects with small holes. Recent research suggests that people do not fear the holes; rather, images of clustered holes, which share basic visual characteristics with venomous organisms, lead to nonconscious fear.
Wang Can, Zhao Zhuoran, Jin Zheng
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Blood phobia and spider phobia: two specific phobias with different autonomic cardiac modulations

Biological Psychology, 2002
Cardiac reactions to two fear-related and one control film were compared in individuals high in spider or blood/injury fear. Twelve subjects in each phobic group were selected on the basis of their scores in the Spider or Mutilation Questionnaires and a semi-structured interview.
SARLO, MICHELA   +3 more
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Specific Phobia

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2005
This article describes specific phobia of childhood and its clinical presentation, discusses issues related to the differential diagnosis of specific phobia, considers the issue of comorbidity among phobic and anxiety disorders and developmental trends in the manifestation of fears, summarizes the epidemiology, causes, and course of specific phobia ...
Wendy K, Silverman, Jacqueline, Moreno
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Treatment of Phobias

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1971
Arthur Rifkin, Frederic M. Quitkin
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Dental Phobia

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1971
Although a number of papers have been written emphasizing the need for conservative dentistry and describing various ways of dealing with patients fearful of dental treatment, little systematic attention has been paid to understanding the basis of this impediment.
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Common phobias

Home Care Provider, 1997
Mrs. Brown, a 65-year-old woman, was terrified of being alone at night and suffered from nyctophobia. Her husband had been dead for several years, and her 40-year-old son lived in another state with his family. She often called him in the middle of the night in a state of panic, and he felt helpless about her situation.
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