Case report: specific phobia of vaginal penetration in a pregnant patient
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Specific phobia is frequently unrecognized or untreated unless it causes significant impairment. In this report, we documented a rare case of a pregnant patient who had a specific fear related to vaginal penetration.
Wenqi Geng, Jinya Cao, Li Jin, Jing Wei
doaj +1 more source
The moderating role of avoidance behavior on anxiety over time: Is there a difference between social anxiety disorder and specific phobia? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Theories of anxiety disorders and phobias have ascribed a critical role to avoidance behavior in explaining the persistence of fear and anxiety, but knowledge about the role of avoidance behavior in the maintenance of anxiety in social anxiety disorder ...
Myriam Rudaz +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Risk Factors and Comorbidity in Childhood Specific Phobias
Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2019 This study aims to investigate possible risk factors associated with specific phobias in children and comorbid mental disorders. Patients between 6-18 years of age who had presented to the child psychiatry outpatient clinic at Bezmialem Vakif University ...
Abdurrahman Cahid Orengul +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Phobia among residents in board training programs in Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2019
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Background: Phobia is an extreme form of anxiety or fear which is triggered by a given situation or object or even danger associated with a situation or object for more than 6 months.
Hassan Zaher M ALQarni +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Spider phobics more easily see a spider in morphed schematic pictures
Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2007 Background Individuals with social phobia are more likely to misinterpret ambiguous social situations as more threatening, i.e. they show an interpretive bias. This study investigated whether such a bias also exists in specific phobia.
Partchev Ivailo +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2021 Intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) is essential for the treatment of macular diseases such as wet age-related macular degeneration and macular edema.
Atsuta Ozaki +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Treatment of flight phobia (aviophobia) through the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) method: a case report [PDF]
Düşünen Adam Psikiyatri ve Nörolojik Bilimler Dergisi, 2014 All phobic individuals, when faced with the phobic situation, feel obvious, severe, persistent and irrational fear. The presence of traumatic experiences are not necessary in the etiology of phobias.
nergis lapsekili, zekeriya yelboga
doaj
Specific phobia and medical aptitude for work : Case report
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Specific phobia is an excessive and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that does not represent a real danger. This disorder is widespread among the population.
M. N. Fendri +7 more
doaj +1 more source
A rare case of alektorophobia treated successfully with graded exposure therapy
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2016 Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by circumscribed, marked fear or anxiety to a specific object or situation which is out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the concerned object or situation.
Satyakant K Trivedi +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Cognitive Biases in Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia: A Review
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia can lead to avoidance of crucial medical procedures and to detrimental health consequences, even among health workers. Yet unlike other specific phobias, BII phobia has been understudied.
Elinor Abado +4 more
doaj +1 more source