Combining popular appeal with accessibly written entries suitable for research projects, this fascinating encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the psychological and scientific aspects of phobias. Many people have irrational fears. Phobias affect about 19 million Americans each year. So is fear "normal"? At what point do fears become clinical phobias? Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear is the definitive volume on a broad range of topics related to fears and phobias. After an introduction to the subject of fear and phobias, the encyclopedia presents approximately 200 A-Z,…mehr
Combining popular appeal with accessibly written entries suitable for research projects, this fascinating encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the psychological and scientific aspects of phobias. Many people have irrational fears. Phobias affect about 19 million Americans each year. So is fear "normal"? At what point do fears become clinical phobias? Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear is the definitive volume on a broad range of topics related to fears and phobias. After an introduction to the subject of fear and phobias, the encyclopedia presents approximately 200 A-Z, cross-referenced entries that address phobias from a variety of angles-types of fears, root causes, physiological and psychological effects, classification, and treatments. The work presents accurate, authoritative, and up-to-date information based on scientific evidence. The majority of the numerous contributors are anxiety disorder researchers and clinicians who possess cutting-edge knowledge of their areas of expertise. Ideal for both high school students and general audiences, readers will be engaged by high-interest content that not only details and explains various phobias but enables them to trace the history, theories, and practices associated with the study and treatment of phobias.
Irena Milosevic is a clinical psychologist at the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and an assistant professor (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, both in Hamilton, Canada. Randi E. McCabe is director of the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre and psychologist-in-chief at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, both in Ontario, Canada.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Entries Acarophobia (Imagined Infestation) Acrophobia (Fear of Heights) Age of Onset Agliophobia (Fear of Pain) Agoraphobia (Fear of Panic-Like Symptoms) Ailurophobia (Fear of Cats) American Psychiatric Association American Psychological Association Amygdala Antony Martin M. (1964- ) Anxiety and Depression Association of America Anxiety and Related Disorders Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule Anxiety Sensitivity Apiphobia (Fear of Bees) Applied Relaxation Applied Tension Aquaphobia (Fear of Water) Arachnophobia (Fear of Spiders) Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Astraphobia (Fear of Thunder and Lightning) Attention Atychiphobia (Fear of Failure) Aversions Aviophobia (Fear of Flying) Bandura Albert (1925- ) Barlow David H. (1942- ) Beck Aaron T. (1921- ) Behavior Therapy Behavioral Approach Test Behavioral Experiment Behavioral Model Benzodiazepines Beta-Blockers Carbon Dioxide Challenge Test Childhood Phobias in Chronicity Classical Conditioning Classification Claustrophobia (Fear of Enclosed Spaces) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Cognitive Bias Modification Cognitive Model Cognitive Restructuring Cognitive Therapy Comorbidity Contingency Management Cortisol Craske Michelle G. Cultural Differences Cynophobia (Fear of Dogs) D-Cycloserine Differential Diagnosis Disease-Avoidance Model Disgust Sensitivity Distraction DSM-5 Dysmorphophobia (Fear of Deformity) Ellis Albert (1913-2007) Emetophobia (Fear of Vomiting) Emotional Processing Theory Entomophobia (Fear of Insects) Erotophobia (Fear of Sex) Erythrophobia (Fear of Blushing) Evolution Role of Exposure Imaginal Exposure In Vivo Exposure Interoceptive Exposure Treatment Extinction Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Eysenck Hans J. (1916-1997) Fainting Response Fear Fear Animal Models of Fear Neural Pathways of Fear Physiology of Fear Return of (Relapse) Fear Generalization Fear of Driving Fear of Germs Fear of Strangers (Stranger Anxiety) Fear of Success Fear of the Unknown Fear Survey Schedule Fear-Potentiated Startle Fight-or-Flight Response Flooding Foa Edna B. (1937- ) Freud Sigmund (1856-1939) Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Gender Differences Guided Mastery Therapy Habituation Hypnosis Hypochondriasis Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Iatrophobia (Fear of Doctors) Implosive Therapy Information-Processing Biases International Classification of Diseases Jones Mary Cover (1897-1987) Lang Peter J. (1930- ) Learning Theory Lifespan Phobias across the Limbic System Marks Isaac M. (1937- ) Medical Student Syndrome Memory Modeling Musophobia (Fear of Mice) National Institute of Mental Health Neuroimaging Non-Associative Model Nosophobia (Fear of Disease or Illness) Nyctophobia (Fear of the Dark) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Ollendick Thomas H. (1945- ) One-Session Treatment Operant Conditioning Ophidiophobia (Fear of Snakes) Ornithophobia (Fear of Birds) Öst Lars-Göran Panic Attacks Panic Disorder Pavlov Ivan (1849-1936) Perceived Control Perception Visual Personality Phobia Animal Type Phobia Blood-Injection-Injury Type Phobia Choking Phobia Dental Phobia Natural Environment Type Phobia Other Type Phobia School Phobia Situational Type Phobia Specific Phobia Types Phobias Assessment of Phobias Causes of Phobias Diagnosis of Phobias Family Influences on the Development and Maintenance of Phobias Genetics of Phobias History of Phobias Impairment Related to Phobias Life-Threatening Phobias Prevalence of Phobias Social and Economic Impact of Phobias in Popular Culture Phobic Beliefs Phobic Neurosis Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Preparedness Theory Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychoeducation Psychology Ptophobia (Fear of Falling) Rachman Jack (1934- ) Reciprocal Inhibition Risk Factors Rothbaum Barbara O. Safety Behavior Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Self-Efficacy Theory Skinner B. F. (1904-1990) Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) Social Learning Theory Social Skills Training Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders Subjective Units of Distress Scale Substance Use Suicide Systematic Desensitization Temperament Test Anxiety Thanatophobia (Fear of Death) Thorndike Edward L. (1874-1949) Three Pathways Theory Treatment Evidence-Based Treatment Medication Treatment Psychological Treatment Self-Help Treatment Outcome Predictors of Treatment Seeking Tripartite Model of Fear Triskaidekaphobia (Fear of the Number 13) Trypophobia (Fear of Holes) Twin Studies Two-Factor Theory of Avoidance Learning Video Feedback Virtual Reality Treatment Watson John B. (1878-1958) Wolpe Joseph (1915-1997) World Health Organization List of Editors and Contributors About the Editors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Entries Acarophobia (Imagined Infestation) Acrophobia (Fear of Heights) Age of Onset Agliophobia (Fear of Pain) Agoraphobia (Fear of Panic-Like Symptoms) Ailurophobia (Fear of Cats) American Psychiatric Association American Psychological Association Amygdala Antony Martin M. (1964- ) Anxiety and Depression Association of America Anxiety and Related Disorders Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule Anxiety Sensitivity Apiphobia (Fear of Bees) Applied Relaxation Applied Tension Aquaphobia (Fear of Water) Arachnophobia (Fear of Spiders) Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Astraphobia (Fear of Thunder and Lightning) Attention Atychiphobia (Fear of Failure) Aversions Aviophobia (Fear of Flying) Bandura Albert (1925- ) Barlow David H. (1942- ) Beck Aaron T. (1921- ) Behavior Therapy Behavioral Approach Test Behavioral Experiment Behavioral Model Benzodiazepines Beta-Blockers Carbon Dioxide Challenge Test Childhood Phobias in Chronicity Classical Conditioning Classification Claustrophobia (Fear of Enclosed Spaces) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Cognitive Bias Modification Cognitive Model Cognitive Restructuring Cognitive Therapy Comorbidity Contingency Management Cortisol Craske Michelle G. Cultural Differences Cynophobia (Fear of Dogs) D-Cycloserine Differential Diagnosis Disease-Avoidance Model Disgust Sensitivity Distraction DSM-5 Dysmorphophobia (Fear of Deformity) Ellis Albert (1913-2007) Emetophobia (Fear of Vomiting) Emotional Processing Theory Entomophobia (Fear of Insects) Erotophobia (Fear of Sex) Erythrophobia (Fear of Blushing) Evolution Role of Exposure Imaginal Exposure In Vivo Exposure Interoceptive Exposure Treatment Extinction Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Eysenck Hans J. (1916-1997) Fainting Response Fear Fear Animal Models of Fear Neural Pathways of Fear Physiology of Fear Return of (Relapse) Fear Generalization Fear of Driving Fear of Germs Fear of Strangers (Stranger Anxiety) Fear of Success Fear of the Unknown Fear Survey Schedule Fear-Potentiated Startle Fight-or-Flight Response Flooding Foa Edna B. (1937- ) Freud Sigmund (1856-1939) Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Gender Differences Guided Mastery Therapy Habituation Hypnosis Hypochondriasis Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Iatrophobia (Fear of Doctors) Implosive Therapy Information-Processing Biases International Classification of Diseases Jones Mary Cover (1897-1987) Lang Peter J. (1930- ) Learning Theory Lifespan Phobias across the Limbic System Marks Isaac M. (1937- ) Medical Student Syndrome Memory Modeling Musophobia (Fear of Mice) National Institute of Mental Health Neuroimaging Non-Associative Model Nosophobia (Fear of Disease or Illness) Nyctophobia (Fear of the Dark) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Ollendick Thomas H. (1945- ) One-Session Treatment Operant Conditioning Ophidiophobia (Fear of Snakes) Ornithophobia (Fear of Birds) Öst Lars-Göran Panic Attacks Panic Disorder Pavlov Ivan (1849-1936) Perceived Control Perception Visual Personality Phobia Animal Type Phobia Blood-Injection-Injury Type Phobia Choking Phobia Dental Phobia Natural Environment Type Phobia Other Type Phobia School Phobia Situational Type Phobia Specific Phobia Types Phobias Assessment of Phobias Causes of Phobias Diagnosis of Phobias Family Influences on the Development and Maintenance of Phobias Genetics of Phobias History of Phobias Impairment Related to Phobias Life-Threatening Phobias Prevalence of Phobias Social and Economic Impact of Phobias in Popular Culture Phobic Beliefs Phobic Neurosis Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Preparedness Theory Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychoeducation Psychology Ptophobia (Fear of Falling) Rachman Jack (1934- ) Reciprocal Inhibition Risk Factors Rothbaum Barbara O. Safety Behavior Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Self-Efficacy Theory Skinner B. F. (1904-1990) Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) Social Learning Theory Social Skills Training Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders Subjective Units of Distress Scale Substance Use Suicide Systematic Desensitization Temperament Test Anxiety Thanatophobia (Fear of Death) Thorndike Edward L. (1874-1949) Three Pathways Theory Treatment Evidence-Based Treatment Medication Treatment Psychological Treatment Self-Help Treatment Outcome Predictors of Treatment Seeking Tripartite Model of Fear Triskaidekaphobia (Fear of the Number 13) Trypophobia (Fear of Holes) Twin Studies Two-Factor Theory of Avoidance Learning Video Feedback Virtual Reality Treatment Watson John B. (1878-1958) Wolpe Joseph (1915-1997) World Health Organization List of Editors and Contributors About the Editors Index
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