Phobias A Phobia is as defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as “any obsessing or morbid fear or dread” (911). Ten percent of all people have an anxiety disorder, or phobia, at some point in their lives and have had no treatment for their problem. (The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties 1). Sigmund Frued, the founder of psychoanalysis, thought that what people feared served as a symbol for some other fear. Usually, the other fear results from an even that may have occurred earlier in one's life and had been repressed or forgotten. The person doesn't now what the original fear is. But it produces feelings of anxiety which, Frued Attributes, to the object for which one now has the phobia. (Encyclopedia America 354). Sometimes in treating phobias, doctors help the patient recall the incident that originally produced the fear. There is no real r....

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