phobic disorders
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phobic — Pertaining to or characterized by phobia. * * * pho·bic fō bik adj of, relating to, affected with, marked by, involving, or constituting a phobia <phobic disorders> <a phobic person> <phobic anxiety> <phobic situations>… … Medical dictionary
Depression and Mood Disorders: Recent Concepts — Starting in the middle third of the twentieth century, the diagnosis of depression increased many fold. Though some of this increase was owing to the systematic marketing of the diagnosis by pharmaceutical companies, other elements of the… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… … Universalium
Phobia — A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning fear or morbid fear ) is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically… … Wikipedia
Fear of medical procedures — Most people suffer from a form of fear of medical procedures during their life. There are many different aspects of this fear and not everyone has every part. Some of these parts include fear of surgery, fear of dental work and fear of doctors… … Wikipedia
Anxiety disorder — Classification and external resources The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) an Expressionist painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch ICD 10 … Wikipedia
Anxiety — Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities. In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Anxiety and Phobias — Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities. In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Panic Disorder — Panic has always been considered a symptom of larger psychiatric illnesses. Yet, only recently has it come to be considered a disorder of its own. The whole panic story is interesting as an example of how symptoms wax and wane in the history… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Cynophobia — (pronounced /ˌsaɪnəˈfoʊbiə/, US dict: sī′·nə·fō′·bē·ə, from the Greek: κύων kýōn dog and φόβος phóbos fear ) is the abnormal fear of dogs. Cynophobia is classified as a specific phobia, under the subtype animal phobias .[1] According to … Wikipedia
