An Excess of Phobias and ManiasSenior Scribe Publications, 2003 - 202 pages |
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... death . • Anxieties in this category are often characteristic of depressive illnesses ; in such cases , they improve when the depression improves . • Illness phobias occur in both sexes . • Some of these fears may be regarded as an ...
... death . • Anxieties in this category are often characteristic of depressive illnesses ; in such cases , they improve when the depression improves . • Illness phobias occur in both sexes . • Some of these fears may be regarded as an ...
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... death and crowded places when he asked to be excused from jury duty because he came " very near fainting ... in all crowded places . " As understanding of the working of the mind advanced during the 19th century , and particularly the ...
... death and crowded places when he asked to be excused from jury duty because he came " very near fainting ... in all crowded places . " As understanding of the working of the mind advanced during the 19th century , and particularly the ...
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... death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis . Damaged by childhood and by appalling family tragedies , the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was obsessed by sickness , insanity , and death much of which he apparently expressed in this ...
... death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis . Damaged by childhood and by appalling family tragedies , the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was obsessed by sickness , insanity , and death much of which he apparently expressed in this ...
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... death . -The American Medical Association Outside of every fat man there is his even fatter clone trying to take over . -Anonymous adipophobia : An abnormal fear of being fat . I don't think anyone is free - one creates his own prison ...
... death . -The American Medical Association Outside of every fat man there is his even fatter clone trying to take over . -Anonymous adipophobia : An abnormal fear of being fat . I don't think anyone is free - one creates his own prison ...
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