Article: Phobias

Phobias

What Are Phobias?

What Causes Phobias?

What Are the Symptoms of Specific Phobias?

How Are Specific Phobias Treated?

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Phobias (FO-bee-az) are unrealistic, long-lasting, intense fears of certain objects or situations. These fears can be so strong that people go to great lengths to avoid the object of their dread.

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Sigmund Freud (1856 1939), one of the greatest psychological thinkers in history, was a psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis (SY-koa-NAL-i-sis), a treatment method that focuses on deeply hidden fears and internal ...

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