Zoophobia
Zoophobia (or Animal Phobia) is a general phobia and the set of specific phobias (and sub-phobias), this kind of phobia is having irrational fear of animals, which were described by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who saw this behavior in psychoneurotic childrens.[1]
Phobia | Condition |
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Ailurophobia | fear of cats |
Arachnophobia | fear of arachnids |
Batrachophobia | fear of amphibians |
Chiroptophobia | fear of bats |
Cynophobia | fear of dogs |
Entomophobia | fear of insects |
Equinophobia | fear of horses |
Ichthyophobia | fear of fish |
Lepidopterophobia | fear of butterflies and/or moths |
Melissophobia | fear of bees |
Musophobia | fear of mice and rats |
Ophidiophobia | fear of snakes |
Ornithophobia | fear of birds |
Ostraconophobia | fear of shellfish |
Ranidaphobia | fear of frogs |
Vermiphobia | fear of worms |
References
- ↑ Nandor Fodor, Frank Gaynor, "Freud: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis", 2004: ISBN 0-7607-5301-6 (initial publ. 1950), article "Zoophobia, infantile", pp. 205-206