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Article: Phobias
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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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Anxiety
Fear
Social anxiety disorder
Specific phobias
Sigmund Freud (1856
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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 ...