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Phobias

A Phobia is as defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as “any
obsessing or morbid fear or dread” (911). Ten percent of all people have an
anxiety disorder, or phobia, at some point in their lives and have had no
treatment for their problem. (The Encyclopedia of , Fears, and
Anxieties 1). Sigmund Frued, the founder of psychoanalysis, thought that
what people feared served as a symbol for some other fear. Usually, the
other fear results from an even that may have occurred earlier in one's
life and had been repressed or forgotten. The person doesn't now what the
original fear is. But it produces feelings of anxiety which, Frued
Attributes, to the object for which one now has the phobia. ...

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to conquer fear”, and “Adam: A Child's Courageous
Battle Against Mental Illness.” Will be of no value in supporting the
thesis. The facts in these sources are almost scarcely useful in supporting
the thesis. However, the first article completely discusses a persons
struggle with schizophrenia and the way in which the person tries to
overcome the obstacle. The second useless article is about a child named
Adam who is courageous in overcoming his battle. The next article deals
with loneliness and how it effects people in general. The fourth article
talks about how everyone worries; again another specific topic in which is
useless for this paper. Finally the last article deals with feat, but has
no mention about phobias in any way shape or form. All in all the amount of
in formation that I found in these five sources was so minute and
irrelevant that I found it, overall, entirely useless. More limited sources
I found are these books: Fears and Phobias Fighting Back, What are ...

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Added: 6/10/2004 04:13:38 PM
Category: Health & Medicine
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