Psychiatry and Psychology

Phobic Disorders

Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid.

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Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid.

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6 entry terms
  • Neuroses, Phobic
  • Phobias
  • Phobic Neuroses
  • Disorder, Phobic
  • Phobia
  • Phobic Disorder

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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History Note

81; was PHOBIAS 1963-80; PHOBIC NEUROSES was see under PHOBIAS 1969-80; CLAUSTROPHOBIA was see under PHOBIAS 1968-78

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  1. F03w.080w.725w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Phobic Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010698. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010698
  2. Phobic Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia
  3. Phobic Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175854