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Psychiatry
The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
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agrizoophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Agrizoophobia is a common term used to describe a fear of wild animals. Many people suffer from agrizoophobia, especially those who were raised in isolated urban areas. This is ...
autophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Autophobia, is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated. Sufferers need not be physically alone, but believe ...
bacteriophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Bacteriophobia, or Mysophobia is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contamination and germs. Someone who has such a fear is referred to as a mysophobe. The term was ...
batrachophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Fear of amphibians. The term batrachophobia has also been recorded in a 1953 psychiatric dictionary.
chaetophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Chaetophobia is fear of hair. Sufferers fear may be associated with human hair and / or animal hair. They fear people / animals with an excess amount of hair. They may also fear ...
catoptrophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Catoptrophobia, or Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, "ghost") is a kind of specific phobia involving a morbid fear of mirrors and one's own reflections. Catoptrophobia ( form ...
chemophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Chemophobia literally means "fear of chemicals". It is most often used to describe the assumption that "chemicals" (i.e., man-made products or artificially concentrated but ...
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