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The book of phobias & manias : a history of obsession / Kate Summerscale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summerscale, Kate, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phobias.
- Mania.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Phobias & manias
- Book of phobias and manias
- Phobias and manias
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: A-Z OF Phobias And Manias
- Ablutophobia (washing)
- Aboulomania (indecisiveness)
- Acarophobia (tiny insects)
- Acrophobia (heights)
- Aerophobia (flying)
- Agoraphobia (open spaces)
- Aibohphobia (palindromes)
- Ailurophobia (cats)
- Aquaphobia (water)
- Arachnophobia (spiders)
- Arithmomania (counting)
- Bambakomallophobia (cotton wool)
- Batrachophobia (frogs)
- Beatlemania (The Beatles)
- Bibliomania (books)
- Blood-injection-injury phobia
- Brontophobia (thunder)
- Choreomania (dancing)
- Claustrophobia (confined spaces)
- Coulrophobia (clowns)
- Cynophobia (dogs)
- Demonomania (The Devil)
- Dermatillomania (skin-picking)
- Dipsomania (alcohol)
- Doraphobia (fur)
- Dromomania (walking)
- Egomania (oneself)
- Emetophobia (vomiting)
- Entomophobia (insects)
- Ergophobia (work)
- Erotomania (love)
- Erythrophobia (blushing)
- Fykiaphobia (seaweed)
- Gelotophobia (mockery)
- Gerascophobia (ageing)
- Giftomania
- Globophobia (balloons)
- Glossophobia (public speaking)
- Graphomania (writing)
- Haphemania (touching)
- Haphephobia (being touched)
- Hippophobia (horses)
- Hippopotomonstrosesqui-pedaliophobia (long words)
- Homicidal monomania (killing)
- Homophobia (homosexuality)
- Hydrophobia (water)
- Hypnophobia (sleep)
- Hypophobia (nothing much)
- Kayak phobia (kayaks)
- Klazomania (shouting)
- Kleptomania (stealing)
- Koumpounophobia (buttons)
- Laughing mania
- Lypemania (sadness)
- Megalomania (self-importance)
- Micromania (shrinking)
- Monomania (one thing)
- Monophobia (solitude)
- Musophobia (rats and mice)
- Mysophobia (germs)
- Mythomania (lying)
- Nomophobia (mobile phones)
- Nyctophobia (darkness)
- Nymphomania (sex)
- Odontophobia (dentists)
- Oniomania (shopping)
- Onomatomania (one word)
- Onychotillomania (nail-pulling)
- Ophidiophobia (snakes)
- Ornithophobia (birds)
- Osmophobia (smells)
- Ovophobia (eggs)
- Pantophobia (everything)
- Pediophobia (dolls)
- Phonophobia (noises)
- Plutomania (riches)
- Pnigophobia (choking)
- Pogonophobia (beards)
- Popcorn phobia
- Pteronophobia (feathers)
- Public urination phobia
- Pyromania (fire)
- Sedatephobia (silence)
- Siderodromophobia (trains)
- Social phobia
- Syllogomania (hoarding)
- Taphephobia (being buried alive)
- Telephonophobia (telephones)
- Tetraphobia (four)
- Thalassophobia (seas)
- Tokophobia (giving birth)
- Trichomania (hair)
- Trichotillomania (hair-plucking)
- Triskaidekaphobia (thirteen)
- Trypophobia (holes)
- Tulipomania (tulips)
- Xenophobia (foreigners)
- Xylophobia (forests)
- Zoophobia (animals).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-239) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780593489758
- 0593489756
- OCLC:
- 1292970903
- Publisher Number:
- 99992009155
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