Meanings
- pluralplural of claustrophobia
Claustrophobias and fears of suffocation are often specially directed against fantasies of being in the mother's womb.
1999, Otto Fenichel, Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis: International Library of Psychology, page 2022 more examples
Gone were the boredoms and claustrophobias of Parliament, the discomforts and pains of high-speed coach travel, however he might later look back on them.
1970, Angus Wilson, The World of Charles Dickens, page 11048% 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, page 240
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