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Presents a compendium of ninety-nine phobias and manias both rare and familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals).

 

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 (6)

How To Use This Book 7 (6)

A-Z OF Phobias And Manias

Ablutophobia (washing)

13 (1)

Aboulomania (indecisiveness)

14 (1)

Acarophobia (tiny insects)

15 (2)

Acrophobia (heights)

17 (2)

Aerophobia (flying)

19 (2)

Agoraphobia (open spaces)

21 (5)

Aibohphobia (palindromes)

26 (1)

Ailurophobia (cats)

26 (4)

Aquaphobia (water)

30 (1)

Arachnophobia (spiders)

31 (5)

Arithmomania (counting)

36 (2)

Bambakomallophobia (cotton wool)

38 (1)

Batrachophobia (frogs)

39 (1)

Beatlemania (The Beatles)

40 (3)

Bibliomania (books)

43 (3)

Blood-injection-injury phobia

46 (3)

Brontophobia (thunder)

49 (2)

Choreomania (dancing)

51 (2)

Claustrophobia (confined spaces)

53 (4)

Coulrophobia (clowns)

57 (2)

Cynophobia (dogs)

59 (4)

Demonomania (The Devil)

63 (3)

Dermatillomania (skin-picking)

66 (1)

Dipsomania (alcohol)

67 (2)

Doraphobia (fur)

69 (2)

Dromomania (walking)

71 (3)

Egomania (oneself)

74 (1)

Emetophobia (vomiting)

75 (3)

Entomophobia (insects)

78 (3)

Ergophobia (work)

81 (1)

Erotomania (love)

82 (2)

Erythrophobia (blushing)

84 (4)

Fykiaphobia (seaweed)

88 (2)

Gelotophobia (mockery)

90 (1)

Gerascophobia (ageing)

91 (2)

Giftomania

93 (1)

Globophobia (balloons)

94 (1)

Glossophobia (public speaking)

94 (2)

Graphomania (writing)

96 (1)

Haphemania (touching)

97 (1)

Haphephobia (being touched)

98 (1)

Hippophobia (horses)

99 (3)

Hippopotomonstrosesqui-pedaliophobia (long words)

102 (1)

Homicidal monomania (killing)

103 (2)

Homophobia (homosexuality)

105 (1)

Hydrophobia (water)

106 (3)

Hypnophobia (sleep)

109 (1)

Hypophobia (nothing much)

109 (1)

Kayak phobia (kayaks)

110 (2)

Klazomania (shouting)

112 (1)

Kleptomania (stealing)

113 (4)

Koumpounophobia (buttons)

117 (2)

Laughing mania

119 (2)

Lypemania (sadness)

121 (1)

Megalomania (self-importance)

122 (1)

Micromania (shrinking)

123 (1)

Monomania (one thing)

124 (2)

Monophobia (solitude)

126 (1)

Musophobia (rats and mice)

126 (1)

Mysophobia (germs)

127 (5)

Mythomania (lying)

132 (4)

Nomophobia (mobile phones)

136 (2)

Nyctophobia (darkness)

138 (3)

Nymphomania (sex)

141 (3)

Odontophobia (dentists)

144 (1)

Oniomania (shopping)

145 (2)

Onomatomania (one word)

147 (1)

Onychotillomania (nail-pulling)

147 (2)

Ophidiophobia (snakes)

149 (2)

Ornithophobia (birds)

151 (2)

Osmophobia (smells)

153 (1)

Ovophobia (eggs)

153 (2)

Pantophobia (everything)

155 (1)

Pediophobia (dolls)

155 (4)

Phonophobia (noises)

159 (1)

Plutomania (riches)

160 (1)

Pnigophobia (choking)

161 (2)

Pogonophobia (beards)

163 (1)

Popcorn phobia

164 (1)

Pteronophobia (feathers)

165 (1)

Public urination phobia

165 (1)

Pyromania (fire)

166 (4)

Sedatephobia (silence)

170 (1)

Siderodromophobia (trains)

171 (1)

Social phobia

172 (2)

Syllogomania (hoarding)

174 (6)

Taphephobia (being buried alive)

180 (2)

Telephonophobia (telephones)

182 (2)

Tetraphobia (four)

184 (2)

Thalassophobia (seas)

186 (1)

Tokophobia (giving birth)

187 (1)

Trichomania (hair)

188 (2)

Trichotillomania (hair-plucking)

190 (2)

Triskaidekaphobia (thirteen)

192 (1)

Trypophobia (holes)

193 (2)

Tulipomania (tulips)

195 (2)

Xenophobia (foreigners)

197 (1)

Xylophobia (forests)

198 (2)

Zoophobia (animals)

200 (3)

Sources 203 (38)

Acknowledgements 241 (1)

Phobias 242 (1)

Manias