agoraphobias

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A form of agoraphobia — The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of agoraphobia

    1909, Paul Dubois, Smith Ely Jelliffe, William A. (William Alanson) White, The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders page 366. They extend to obsessions, to agoraphobias, and they encourage those thus afflicted to go a few steps every day along the way of which they stand in horror.

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    Among the phobias, simple phobias are most common in the population, but agoraphobias are most common in the office.

    1995, Jerrold S. Maxmen, Mark D. Kilgus, Nicholas G. Ward, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment, page 261

    ...48% of patients with animal phobias, 58% of those with social phobias, 61% of those with blood and dental phobias, 69% of those with claustrophobias, and 91% of those with agoraphobias identified direct conditioning histories.

    2002, David H Barlow, Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic pag 240
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