Phobias

Phobias

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Table of contents

1. What is a phobia ?

2. Some examples of phobia

3. A few numbers

4. Diagnosis

5. Treatments to cure a phobia

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What is a phobia ?

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Phobia = irrational fear of a particular disproportionate kind ≠ fear

Differentes categories :

• Specific or simple phobias ➢ symptoms are caused because of an external object 4 subdivisions : animal, environment, situation, blood-injection-injury

• Agoraphobia ➢ caused by the anxiety of open spaces, social embarassment, the anguish of contamination (ex : coronavirus) or a PTSD (= post-traumatic stress disorder)

• Social phobia or social anxiety disorder ➢ stress of interacting with others or to do something in front of other people (exs : blemmophobia, ereutophobia..). Characterized by an intense anxiety, avoidance of some social situations or even depression and isolation.

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Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

For him, the phobia is an anguish's hysteria.He worked a lot on phobias (ex : Le Petit Hans), work which plays an important role in everything we know about phobias today.

Today only psychanalysts keep the term of "phobia".

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Some examples of phobia

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Animal phobias

Arachnophobia

Acrophobia

Aviophobia

Claustrophobia

Butyrophobia

Philophobia

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A few numbers

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5%-25%

of the population suffer from phobias

It is the most frequent psychiatric pathology affecting woman and the second most frequent for men.

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We can have a phobia at any age but :

They most often occur in childhood between 5 and 9 years old (especially animal phobias, 1 out of 6 children have this phobia)

Animal phobias decrease with age

For situational phobias they appear in childhood and after 20 years old

Situation phobias increase with age

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Diagnosis

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➢ What are the reactions of the person concerned in specific situations ?

➢ At which frequency do the symptoms occur ?

➢ Since when is the problem present in the person’s life ?

➢ How much time is allocated to solving or elaborating to dodge the issue altogether ?

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Treatments to cure a phobia

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Various methods used :

Therapy classic or more specific like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Medication

Hypnotherapy

+ thermal cures, homeopathy, herbal medicine..

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Conclusion

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Thanks !

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Bibliography

• Mirabel-Sarron, C., Vera, L. (2012). Comprendre et traiter les phobies. Paris: Dunod. https://doi-org.srvext.uco.fr/10.3917/dunod.mirab.2012.02

• https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/afaaefdb-2349-4fc6-a2be-f86bf569e4b6__7C___0.html

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobie

• https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/phobie/60302

• https://www.psychologue.net/articles/les-18-phobies-les-plus-communes

• https://www.anxiete.fr/phobies-specifiques/introduction/

• https://psychotherapie.ooreka.fr/astuce/voir/567731/arachnophobie

• https://hypnose-clinique.ca/theorie/freud-hypnose-psychanalyse/

• https://ressourcessante.salutbonjour.ca/condition/getcondition/phobies

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