Fears and phobias
A Phobia is:

"an external symbolic interpretation of an internal anxiety."

What does that mean?
When a person finds themselves in a situation that creates intense emotions, the persons 'psyche' has the ability to repress/hide/disavow those emotions. Once those emotions have been bottled up, the psyche will create a phobia - to warn the person not to get into that (or any similar) situation again.

Makes sense doesn't it?
You get bitten by a dog......... you (can) develop a fear of dogs. The fear stops you going anywhere near dogs, and hence prevents you from getting bitten again..

What's the difference between a fear and a phobia?
The main difference is in the severity of the emotional reaction: a strong dislike of flying is a fear, whereas a pathological fear (an intense, uncontrollable, unendurable, physical fear) is considered to be a phobia.

Phobias - Symbolic
Although some Phobias seem to serve an obvious purpose (fear of fire, drowning etc.) some appear to make no sense at all! - rest assured though, all Phobias serve a purpose. In therapy, we can find the originating cause (the unconscious conflict) of the Phobia and release it - and when the emotions are released, the phobia disappears. Most Phobias are not directly related to the cause of the emotion, they are symbolic of it. The most obvious example is the fear of flying: how many people do you know who have lived through a plane crash? None? well where do the UK's 12 million aviatophobics come from then? They (mostly) don't have a fear of flying (or dying, or crashing, or being blown up), they have a fear of being out of control - which their brain symbolises and the projects onto flying.

Questions and answers

Can I do anything myself to help control the Phobia?
The best way to live with a phobia, is to ignore it. I know that is easier said than done, but the more you think about (say) your fear of being sick - the more fear and anxiety you create, the worse your phobia will become.

Is it not a good idea to read books about my Phobia then?
In the short-term you will feel a little bit better (because you understand a little about yourself - and this gives you a sense of control) but in the long term, all you are doing is spending more and more time thinking about your phobia - and hence dragging up more emotion.

How come different therapies have different success rates in tackling Phobias?
Some forms of therapy attempt to 'get around' the phobia, or make the sufferer feel better about 'living with it'. Others try to understand intellectually what may be causing it. Analytical Hypnotherapy can find the cause of the problem, and when it does, the phobia disappears - because there is nothing driving it anymore.

Why is Hypnoanalysis so successful in treating fears and phobias (as well as anxiety/depression etc.)
Phobias are almost always formed in the childhood (though the symptoms may not appear for many years) and are caused by the sufferer bottling up some strong emotions, and those emotions being projected onto an object/situation. (bitten by a dog = fear of dogs)
The only way to CURE a phobia (to get rid of it completely, so that it no longer effects the person) is to release the bottled up emotions that are causing it. Sounds easy?

The only difficulty is........most of the time, the bottled up emotions are completely locked away (hidden) in the depths of the persons subconscious mind. (some people call the process repression, or denial, or disavowal or even dissociation...but the effect is the same - the sufferer has no conscious awareness of the emotions or experiences that are bottled up)

Most other types of therapy cannot gain access to these 'locked away' emotions & experiences, whereas hypnoanalysis can - sometimes quite easily.

The process of Hypnoanalysis (sometimes referred to as analytical hypnotherapy) requires a strong bond of trust and rapport being created between the therapist, and the client.
Over a period of about eight sessions, at weekly intervals, we slowly link thoughts and memories back through time (by talking about them) until we come to the bottled up emotions. When we get to these emotions, we talk them through until they are resolved.

It doesn't take long to resolve a childhood hear of, say, Dr Who and the Daleks...........when you are a fifty year old company executive!

Hypnoanalysis usually takes 8 sessions (though it can take up to 12) at weekly intervals. The sessions cost £65 each.

Common phobias

The following are some of the more common Phobias that I have been consulted for:

Arachnophobia (spiders), Aviatopophobia (flying), Hydrophobia (water), Acrophobia (heights), Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces), Agorophobia (open spaces), Demophobia (crowds), Nyctophobia (darkness), Odontophobia (dentists), Glossophobia (speaking in public), Aichmophobia (needles), Thanatophobia (death or dying).

The above Phobias are almost always indirect - this means that they are usually indirectly linked to an unresolved emotional conflict.

(All the other Phobias in this 'common phobia' section, are usually 'direct Phobias').

I've grouped the phobias above together, because they usually symbolise a situation where the sufferer feels 'out of control'. If you think about it, there are very few situations in life that could symbolise more a feeling of being 'out of control'...... ...flying in a tin can at 400 miles an hour, two miles up in the sky ...lying on a dentists couch, with him about to stick a needle in you ...in a completely dark room, can't even see your own hand in front of you ...caught up in a large crowd of people, being dragged along with them ......you get the picture!

EMETOPHOBIA or EMETEPHOBIA - a fear of being sick Aka: phagophobia, vomitophobia, vomit phobia, sickness phobia.

Associated fears; gagging, seeing others being sick, choking on food, pregnancy (due to possibility of morning sickness), drowning, and 'social Phobia'.

I have treated well over two hundred people with Emetophobia - so it must be a very common Phobia indeed!. This Phobia seems to effect more women than men, and tends to have a very disabling effect on the sufferer; quite often the person has to avoid all places where there is a possibility of themselves (or others) being sick; pubs, restaurants, clubbing, eating in front of others etc. Because of the link between eating and being sick, the sufferer tends to be a little obsessive about what and where they will eat. A lot of sufferers tend to view being sick as 'horrible, dirty, yukky' etc, and so it is quite common for emetophobics to also have fears of other situations where they might feel the same way; going to the toilet (number twos), or the inability to urinate in front of others (shy bladder), or even just being a little bit sweaty. Nearly all the sufferers I have helped, have also had 'Social Phobia' (see below) (Sometimes called emetophobia, emetephobia, sick phobia, sickness phobia, vomiting phobia, fear of vomiting, fear of gagging, fear of swallowing, fear of choking, globus hystericus)

COPROPHOBIA or CORPOROPHOBIA - fear of going to the loo (passing faeces) Aka: toilet phobia

A fear of anything related to shit/shitting, toilets, public toilets, being heard going to the toilet, feeling unclean or dirty generally. Another fairly common Phobia. Typically the sufferer would find it difficult (if not impossible) to use a public loo. A lot of the time the fear is specifically of losing bowel control - in public. Quite often the sufferer has very precise routines they have to adhere to - in order to be able to go to the loo.

Sometimes people with coprophobia/coporophobia use laxatives to avoid the feeling of going to the loo, and sometimes they might even 'auto-disempact' - which I hope is self explanitory!

SOCIAL PHOBIA (SCOPOPHOBIA)- a fear of embarassing, or humiliating 'on the spot' type situations (in public) Aka: social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, fear of being judged

SOCIAL PHOBIA is probably the most common phobia there is; a pervasive fear of any situation where the sufferer is likely to feel 'on the spot', embarassed, humiliated or judged - for example; dinner parties, public speaking, interviews, appearing in court, singing, stuttering etc Associated symptoms: sensitivity to criticism, neagtive self image, fear of rejection, difficulty in being assertive and feelings of inferiority . On a more general level, the social phobic worries continuously about how others 'see' them, and what others may think about them - it is not surprising then that the sufferer usually spends a lot of time creating the image they want others to see. Usually the social phobic is quite adept at concealing their anxiety from others, although there is quite often a difficulty in maintaining eye contact.

In a clinical setting (in the U.S.A.) somewhere between 3 and 13% of people had social phobia. Social phobia generally starts in the mid -teens (although it often follows on from just being 'shy') or can be triggered off by a particularly embarassing event. As with all phobias, stress (or the lack of it) will have a significant effect on the 'strength' of the anxiety created. In the D.S.M.4 (the Mental Health 'Bible') the main criteria for social phobia is listed as; A marked and persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others. The individual fears that he/she will act in a way that will be humiliating or embarassing.

Some symptoms that may appear alongside (or be caused by) social phobia or social anxiety are.....
A fear of public speaking
A fear of talking on the telephone
A fear of writing in front of someone (even signing a cheque!)
Blushing, or a fear of blushing
Stuttering or stammering
A lack of confidence
Working too hard (to please others)
Setting unachieveably high standards (and feeling bad when they are not met)
A preoccupation with how you look: perfecting an image you want others to see (NOT vanity - this is about trying to 'blend in')
Certain twiches or 'tics'
Shy bladder (men) not being able to pee, when on the spot
Certain sexual inhibitions - due to 'performance anxiety'
Repeated failure of driving test - due to 'performance anxiety'
A persistant fear of failure, or 'not making the grade'

Basically any situation in life where you might feel embarrassed, on the spot, judged, silly out of control etc.

SHY BLADDER - the inability to urinate in front of others Aka: paruresis, stage fright, toilet anxiety, toilet phobia

Shy bladder is one of the most common symptoms that men consult me for. Men with shy bladder (and it is usually only men who get shy bladder - for obvious reasons) have a great difficulty peeing in front of other people, or in a place that they are unfamiliar with. As with all phobias, the severity of the symptoms can change from person to person, and also fluctuate depending on the persons stress level. i.e. some men find it a little difficult to pee in a crowded toilet, some can only pee in their own toilet (causing great difficulties - because the person has to come home from work, just to have a pee). Due to the embarassing nature of the symptom, it is rare that a man would consult his G.P. with the problem - and because of this, there is very little written on the subject.

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Alphabetical list of phobias

A
Abuse: sexual - Contreltophobia
Accidents - Dystychiphobia
Air - Anemophobia
Air swallowing - Aerophobia
Airborne noxious substances - Aerophobia
Airsickness - Aeronausiphobia
Alcohol - Methyphobia or Potophobia
Alone, being - Autophobia or Monophobia
Alone, being or solitude - Isolophobia
Amnesia - Amnesiphobia
Anger - Cholerophobia
Angina - Anginophobia
Animals - Zoophobia
Animals, skins of or fur - Doraphobia
Animals, wild - Agrizoophobia
Ants - Myrmecophobia
Anything new - Neophobia
Asymmetrical things - Asymmetriphobia
Atomic Explosions - Atomosophobia
Automobile, being in a moving - Ochophobia
Automobiles- Motorphobia

B
Bacteria - Bacteriophobia
Bald people - Peladophobia
Bald, becoming - Phalacrophobia
Bathing - Ablutophobia
Beards - Pogonophobia
Beaten by a rod or instrument of punishment, or of being severely criticized - Rhabdophobia
Beautiful women - Caligynephobia
Beds or going to bed - Clinophobia
Bees - Apiphobia or Melissophobia
Bicycles - Cyclophobia
Birds - Ornithophobia
Black - Melanophobia
Blindness in a visual field - Scotomaphobia
Blood - Hemophobia, Hemaphobia or Hematophobia
Blushing or the color red - Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Body odors - Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Body, things to the left side of the body - Levophobia
Body, things to the right side of the body - Dextrophobia
Bogeyman or bogies - Bogyphobia
Bolsheviks - Bolshephobia
Books - Bibliophobia
Bound or tied up - Merinthophobia
Bowel movements: painful - Defecaloesiophobia
Brain disease - Meningitophobia
Bridges or of crossing them - Gephyrophobia
Buildings: being close to high buildings - Batophobia
Bullets - Ballistophobia
Bulls - Taurophobia
Bums or beggars - Hobophobia
Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons - Scelerophobia
Buried alive, being or cemeteries - Taphephobia or Taphophobia

C
Cancer - Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia
Car or vehicle, riding in - Amaxophobia
Cats - Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia
Celestial spaces - Astrophobia
Cemeteries - Coimetrophobia
Cemeteries or being buried alive - Taphephobia or Taphophobia
Ceremonies, religious - Teleophobia
Changes, making; moving - Tropophobia or Metathesiophobia
Chickens - Alektorophobia
Child, bearing a deformed; deformed people - Teratophobia
Childbirth - Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia
Children - Pedophobia
Chinese or Chinese culture - Sinophobia
Chins - Geniophobia
Choking or being smothered - Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Choking - Anginophobia
Cholera - Chorophobia
Church - Ecclesiophobia
Clocks - Chronomentrophobia
Clocks or time - Chronophobia
Clothing - Vestiphobia
Clouds - Nephophobia
Clowns - Coulrophobia
Coitus - Coitophobia
Cold or cold things - Frigophobia
Cold: extreme, ice or frost - Cryophobia
Cold - Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia
Color purple - Porphyrophobia
Color red or blushing - Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Color yellow - Xanthophobia
Color white - Leukophobia
Colors - Chromophobia or Chromatophobia
Comets - Cometophobia
Computers or working on computers - Cyberphobia
Confined spaces - Claustrophobia
Constipation - Coprastasophobia
Contamination, dirt or infection - Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Contamination with dirt or germs - Misophobia or Mysophobia
Cooking - Mageirocophobia
Corpses - Necrophobia
Cosmic Phenomenon - Kosmikophobia
Creepy, crawly things - Herpetophobia
Criticized severely, or beaten by rod or instrument of punishment - Rhabdophobia
Criticism - Enissophobia
Crosses or the crucifix - Staurophobia
Crossing streets - Agyrophobia or Dromophobia
Crowded public places like markets - Agoraphobia
Crowds or mobs - Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Ochlophobia
Crucifix, the or crosses - Staurophobia
Crystals or glass - Crystallohobia

D
Dampness, moisture or liquids - Hygrophobia
Dancing - Chorophobia
Dark or night - Nyctophobia
Dark place, being in - Lygophobia
Darkness - Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia
Dawn or daylight - Eosophobia
Daylight or sunshine - Phengophobia
Death or dying - Thanatophobia
Death or dead things - Necrophobia
Decaying matter - Seplophobia
Decisions: making decisions - Decidophobia
Defeat - Kakorrhaphiophobia
Deformed people or bearing a deformed child - Teratophobia
Deformity or unattractive body image - Dysmorphophobia
Demons - Demonophobia or Daemonophobia
Dental surgery - Odontophobia
Dentists - Dentophobia
Dependence on others - Soteriophobia
Depth - Bathophobia
Diabetes - Diabetophobia
Dining or dinner conservations - Delpnophobia
Dirt, contamination or infection - Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Dirt or germs, being contaminated with - Misophobia or mysophobia
Dirt or filth - Rhypophobia or Rupophobia
Dirty, being dirty or personal filth - Automysophobia
Disease - Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia
Disease and suffering - Panthophobia
Disease, a definite - Monopathophobia
Disease, brain - Meningitophobia
Disease: kidney - Albuminurophobia
Disease, rectal - Rectophobia
Dizziness or vertigo when looking down - Illyngophobia
Dizziness or whirlpools - Dinophobia
Doctor, going to the - Iatrophobia
Doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from official - Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Dogs or rabies - Cynophobia
Dolls - Pediophobia
Double vision - Diplophobia
Drafts - Aerophobia or Anemophobia
Dreams, wet - Oneirogmophobia
Dreams - Oneirophobia
Drinking - Dipsophobia
Drugs, new - Neopharmaphobia
Drugs or taking medicine - Pharmacophobia
Dryness- Xerophobia
Dust- Amathophobia or Koniophobia
Duty or responsibility, neglecting - Paralipophobia
Dying or death - Thanatophobia

E
Eating or swallowing - Phagophobia
Eating or food - Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Eating or swallowing or of being eaten - Phagophobia
Eight, the number - Octophobia
Electricity - Electrophobia
Englishness - Anglophobia
Erect penis - Medorthophobia
Erection, losing an - Medomalacuphobia
Everything - Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia
Eyes - Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia
Eyes, opening one's - Optophobia

F
Fabrics, certain - Textophobia
Failure - Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia
Fainting - Asthenophobia
Fatigue - Kopophobia
Fearful situations: being preferred by a phobic - Counterphobia
Feathers or being tickled by feathers - Pteronophobia
Fecal matter, feces - Coprophobia or Scatophobia
Female genitals - Kolpophobia
Female genitalia - Eurotophobia
Fever - Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Pyrexiophobia
Filth or dirt - Rhypophobia
Fire - Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia
Firearms - Hoplophobia
Fish - Ichthyophobia
Flogging or punishment - Mastigophobia
Floods - Antlophobia
Flowers - Anthrophobia or Anthophobia
Flutes - Aulophobia
Flying - Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia
Fog - Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia
Food or eating - Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Food - Cibophobia
Foreigners or strangers - Xenophobia
Forests or wooden objects - Xylophobia
Forests - Hylophobia
Forests, dark wooded area, of at night - Nyctohylophobia
Forgetting or being forgotten - Athazagoraphobia
France or French culture - Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia
Freedom - Eleutherophobia
Friday the 13th - Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Frogs - Batrachophobia
Frost, ice or extreme cold - Cryophobia
Frost or ice - Pagophobia
Functioning or work: surgeon's fear of operating - Ergasiophobia
Fur or skins of animals - Doraphobia

G
Gaiety - Cherophobia
Garlic - Alliumphobia
Genitals, particularly female - Kolpophobia
Genitalia, female - Eurotophobia
Germans or German culture - Germanophobia or Teutophobia
Germs or dirt, being contaminated with - Misophobia or mysophobia
Germs - Verminophobia
Ghosts or specters - Spectrophobia
Ghosts - Phasmophobia
Girls, young or virgins - Parthenophobia
Glass or crystals - Crystallophobia
Glass - Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia or Nelophobia
Gloomy place, being in - Lygophobia
God or gods - Zeusophobia
Gods or religion - Theophobia
Gold - Aurophobia
Good news, hearing good news - Euphobia
Gravity - Barophobia
Greek or Greek culture - Hellophobia
Greek terms - Hellenologophobia

H
Hair - Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia
Halloween - Samhainophobia
Handwriting - Graphophobia
Harmed by wicked persons; bad men or burglars - Scelerophobia
Heart - Cardiophobia
Heat - Thermophobia
Heaven - Ouranophobia or Uranophobia
Heights - Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia
Hell - Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Heredity - Patroiophobia
Holy things - Hagiophobia
Home - Ecophobia
Home surroundings or a house - Oikophobia
Home, returning - Nostophobia
Home surroundings - Eicophobia
Homosexuality or of becoming homosexual - Homophobia
Horses - Equinophobia or Hippophobia
Hospitals - Nosocomephobia
House or home surroundings - Oikophobia
Houses or being in a house - Domatophobia
Hurricanes and tornadoes - Lilapsophobia
Hypnotized, being or of sleep - Hypnophobia

I
Ice or frost - Pagophobia
Ice, frost or extreme cold - Cryophobia
Ideas - Ideophobia
Ignored, being - Athazagoraphobia
Imperfection - Atelophobia
Inability to stand - Basiphobia or Basophobia
Infection, contamination or dirt - Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Infinity - Apeirophobia
Injections - Trypanophobia
Injury - Traumatophobia
Insanity, dealing with - Lyssophobia
Insanity - Dementophobia or Maniaphobia
Insects - Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia
Insects that eat wood - Isopterophobia
Insects that cause itching - Acarophobia
Itching - Acarophobia

J
Japanese or Japanese culture - Japanophobia
Jealousy - Zelophobia
Jews - Judeophobia
Joint immobility - Ankylophobia
Jumping from high and low places - Catapedaphobia
Justice - Dikephobia

K
Kidney disease - Albuminurophobia
Kissing - Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Knees - Genuphobia
Knowledge - Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia

L
Lakes - Limnophobia
Large things - Megalophobia
Laughter - Geliophobia
Lawsuits - Liticaphobia
Learning - Sophophobia
Left-handed; objects at the left side of the body - Sinistrophobia
Leprosy - Leprophobia or Lepraphobia
Lice - Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia
Light - Photophobia
Light flashes - Selaphobia
Lightning and thunder - Brontophobia or Karaunophobia
Lights, glaring - Photoaugliaphobia
Liquids, dampness or moisture - Hygrophobia
Locked in an enclosed place - Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Lockjaw or tetanus - Tetanophobia
Loneliness or of being oneself - Eremophobia or Eremiphobia
Looking up - Anablephobia or Anablepophobia
Loud noises - Ligyrophobia
Love, sexual love - Erotophobia
Love play - Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia
Love, falling or being in - Philophobia

M
Machines - Mechanophobia
Mad, becoming - Lyssophobia
Many things - Polyphobia
Marriage - Gamophobia
Materialism - Hylephobia
Matter, decaying - Seplophobia
Meat - Carnophobia
Medicine, taking; or drugs - Pharmacophobia
Medicines, mercurial - Hydrargyophobia
Memories- Mnemophobia
Men, bad or burglars or being harmed by wicked persons - Scelerophobia
Men - Androphobia or Arrhenphobia or Hominophobia
Menstruation - Menophobia
Mercurial medicines - Hydrargyophobia
Metal - Metallophobia
Meteors - Meteorophobia
Mice - Musophobia, Murophobia or Suriphobia
Microbes - Bacillophobia or Microbiophobia
Mind - Psychophobia
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror - Eisoptrophobia
Mirrors - Catoptrophobia
Missles - Ballistophobia
Mobs or crowds - Demophobia, Enochlophobia or Ochlophobia
Moisture, dampness or liquids - Hygrophobia
Money - Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia
Moon - Selenophobia
Mother-in-law - Pentheraphobia
Moths - Mottephobia
Motion or movement - Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia
Moving or making changes - Tropophobia
Moving automobile or vehicle, being in - Ochophobia
Muscular incoordination (Ataxia) - Ataxiophobia
Mushrooms - Mycophobia
Music - Melophobia
Myths or stories or false statements - Mythophobia

N
Names or hearing a certain name - Onomatophobia
Names - Nomatophobia
Narrow things or places - Stenophobia
Narrowness - Anginophobia
Needles - Aichmophobia or Belonephobia
New, anything or novel - Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Neophobia
Newness - Cainophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Cainotophobia
News: hearing good news - Euphobia
Night or dark - Nyctophobia
Night - Noctiphobia
Noise - Acousticophobia
Noises, loud - Ligyrophobia
Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones - Phonophobia
Northern lights - Auroraphobia
Nosebleeds - Epistaxiophobia
Novelty or anything new - Kainophobia or Kainolophobia
Novelty - Cainophobia or Cainotophobia
Nuclear weapons - Nucleomituphobia
Nudity - Gymnophobia or Nudophobia
Number 8 - Octophobia
Number 13 - Triskadekaphobia
Numbers - Arithmophobia or Numerophobia

O
Objects, small - Tapinophobia
Ocean or sea - Thalassophobia
Odor, personal - Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia, Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Odor, that one has a vile odor - Autodysomophobia
Odors or smells - Olfactophobia
Official doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from - Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Old people - Gerontophobia
Old, growing - Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia
Open spaces - Agoraphobia
Open high places - Aeroacrophobia
Operation, surgical - Tomophobia
Opinions - Allodoxaphobia
Others, dependence on - Soteriophobia
Otters - Lutraphobia
Outer space - Spacephobia

P
Pain - Algiophobia, Ponophobia, Odynophobia or Odynephobia
Paper - Papyrophobia
Parasites - Parasitophobia
Parents-in-law - Soceraphobia
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth - Arachibutyrophobia
Pellagra - Pellagrophobia
Penis, erect - Medorthophobia
Penis, esp erect - Phallophobia
Penis, erect: seeing, thinking about or having - Ithyphallophobia
Penis, losing an erection - Medomalacuphobia
People - Anthropophobia
People in general or society - Sociophobia
People, deformed or bearing a deformed child - Teratophobia
Philosophy - Philsosphobia
Phobias - Phobophobia
Phobic prefering fearful situations - Counterphobia
Pins and needles - Belonephobia
Pins - Enetophobia
Place: locked in an enclosed place - Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Place, being in a dark or gloomy - Lygophobia
Places, certain - Topophobia
Places, crowded public - Agora[phobia
Places, open high - Aeroacrophobia
Places or things, narrow - Stenophobia
Plants - Botonophobia
Pleasure, feeling - Hedonophobia
Poetry - Metrophobia
Pointed objects - Aichmophobia
Poison - Iophobia
Poisoned, being - Toxiphobia, Toxophobia, or Toxicophobia
Poliomyelitis, contracting - Poliosophobia
Politicians - Politicophobia
Pope - Papaphobia
Poverty - Peniaphobia
Precipices - Cremnophobia
Priests or sacred things - Hierophobia
Progress - Prosophobia
Property - Orthophobia
Prostitutes or venereal disease - Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia
Punishment or flogging - Mastigophobia
Punishment by a rod or other instrument, or of being severely criticized - Rhabdophobia
Punishment - Poinephobia
Puppets - Pupaphobia
Purple, color - Porphyrophobia

R
Rabies - Cynophobia, Hydrophobophobia, Hydrophobia, Kynophobia, or Lyssophobia
Radiation or x-rays - Radiophobia
Railroads or train travel - Siderodromophobia
Rain - Ombrophobia or Pluviophobia
Rape - Virginitiphobia
Rat, great mole - Zemmiphobia
Relatives - Syngenesophobia
Religion or gods - Theophobia
Religious ceremonies - Teleophobia
Reptiles - Herpetophobia
Responsibility or duty, neglecting - Paralipophobia
Responsibility - Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia
Ridiculed, being - Catagelophobia or Katagelophobia
Rivers - Potamphobia or Potamophobia
Road travel or travel - Hodophobia
Robbers or being robbed - Harpaxophobia
Rooms, empty - Cenophobia or Centophobia
Rooms - Koinoniphobia
Ruin - Atephobia
Running water - Potamophobia
Russians - Russophobia

S
Sacred things or priests - Hierophobia
Satan - Satanophobia
Scabies - Scabiophobia
School, going to school - Didaskaleinophobia
School - Scolionophobia
Scientific terminology, complex - Hellenologophobia
Scratches or being scratched - Amychophobia
Sea or ocean - Thalassophobia
Self, seeing oneself in a mirror - Eisoptrophobia
Self, personal odor - Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia
Self, being alone - Autophobia, Eremophobia, Eremiphobia or Isolophobia
Self, being dirty - Automysophobia
Self, being oneself - Autophobia
Self, being seen or looked at - Scopophobia or Scoptophobia
Self, being touched - Aphenphosmphobia
Self, that one has a vile odor - Autodysomophobia
Semen - Spermatophobia or Spermophobia
Sermons - Homilophobia
Sex - Genophobia
Sex, opposite - Heterophobia or Sexophobia
Sexual abuse - Agraphobia or Contreltophobia
Sexual intercourse - Coitophobia
Sexual love or sexual questions - Erotophobia
Sexual perversion - Paraphobia
Shadows - Sciophobia or Sciaphobia
Shellfish - Ostraconophobia
Shock - Hormephobia
Sin or of having committted an unpardonable sin - Enosiophobia or Enissophobia
Sin - Hamartophobia
Single: staying single - Anuptaphobia
Sinning - Peccatophobia
Sitting down - Kathisophobia
Sitting - Cathisophobia or Thaasophobia
Situations, certain - Topophobia
Skin disease - Dermatosiophobia
Skin lesions - Dermatophobia
Skin of animals, fur- Doraphobia
Sleep - Somniphobia
Sleep or being hypnotized - Hypnophobia
Slime - Blennophobia or Myxophobia
Small things - Microphobia, Mycrophobia or Tapinophobia
Smells or odors - Olfactophobia
Smothered, being or choking - Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Snakes - Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia
Snow - Chionophobia
Social (fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations) -
Social Phobia
Society or people in general - Anthropophobia or Sociophobia
Solitude - Monophobia
Sounds - Acousticophobia
Sourness - Acerophobia
Space, closed or locked in an enclosed space - Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, Clithrophobia
Space, outer- Spacephobia
Spaces, confined - Claustrophobia
Spaces, empty - Cenophobia, Centophobia or Kenophobia
Spaces, open- Agoraphobia
Speak, trying to- Glossophobia
Speaking - Laliophobia or Lalophobia
Speaking aloud, voices or noises, or telephones - Phonophobia
Speaking in public - Glossophobia
Specters or ghosts - Spectrophobia
Speed - Tachophobia
Spiders - Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia
Spirits - Pneumatiphobia
Stage fright - Topophobia
Stairs or climbing stairs - Climacophobia
Stand, inability to - Basiphobia or Basophobia
Standing upright - Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia
Standing up - Stasiphobia
Standing up and walking - Stasibasiphobia
Stared at, being - Ophthalmophobia
Stars - Siderophobia or Astrophobia
Statements, false or myths or stories - Mythophobia
Staying single - Anuptaphobia
Stealing - Cleptophobia or Kleptophobia
Step-father - Vitricophobia
Step-mother - Novercaphobia
Stings - Cnidophobia or Linonophobia
Stooping - Kyphophobia
Strangers or foreigners - Xenophobia
Streets, crossing streets - Dromophobia
Streets - Agyrophobia
String - Linonophobia
Storm, thunder- Brontophobia
Stuttering - Psellismophobia
Sun or sunlight - Heliophobia
Sunshine or daylight - Phengophobia
Surgical operations - Tomophobia
Swallowing or eating - Phagophobia
Symbolism - Symbolophobia
Syphillis (lues) - Luiphobia or Syphilophobia

T
Tapeworms - Taeniophobia
Taste - Geumaphobia or Geumophobia
Technology - Technophobia
Teeth - Odontophobia
Termites - Isopterophobia
Tests, taking - Testophobia
Tetanus or lockjaw - Tetanophobia
Theaters - Theatrophobia
Theology - Theologicophobia
Things, many - Polyphobia
Things, large - Megalophobia
Things or places, narrow - Stenophobia
Things, small - Microphobia or Mycrophobia
Thinking - Phronemophobia
Thunder - Ceraunophobia
Thunder and lightning - Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia or Keraunophobia
Toads - Bufonophobia
Tombstones - Placophobia
Tornadoes and hurricanes - Lilapsophobia
Touched, being touched - Aphenphosmphobia, Haphephobia or Haptephobia or Chiraptophobia
Trains, railroads or train travel - Siderodromophobia
Travel or road travel - Hodophobia
Trees - Dendrophobia
Trembling - Ttremophobia
Tricinosis - Trichinophobia
Tuberculosis - Phthisiophobia or Tuberculophobia
Tyrants - Tyrannophobia

U
Ugliness - Cacophobia
Undressing in front of someone - Dishabillophobia
Urine or urinating - Urophobia

V
Vaccination - Vaccinophobia
Vegetables - Lachanophobia
Venereal disease or prostitutes - Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia
Ventriloquist's dummy - Automatonophobia
Vision: double vision - Diplophobia
Voices or noises, speaking aloud or telephones - Phonophobia
Voids or empty spaces - Kenophobia
Vomiting secondary to airsickness - Aeronausiphobia
Vomiting - Emetophobia

W
Waits, long - Macrophobia
Walking - Ambulophobia, Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia
Washing - Abultophobia
Wasps - Spheksophobia
Water - Hydrophobia
Waves or wave like motions - Cymophobia or Kymophobia
Wax statues - Automatonophobia
Weakness - Asthenophobia
Wealth - Plutophobia
Weapons, nuclear - Nucleomituphobia
Weight, gaining - Obesophobia or Pocrescophobia
Wind - Ancraophobia or Anemophobia
Wine - Oenophobia
Witches and Witchcraft - Wiccaphobia
Women - Gynephobia or Gynophobia
Wooden objects or forests - Xylophobia
Words - Logophobia or Verbophobia
Words, long- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia
Work - Ergophobia or Ponophobia
Worms - Scoleciphobia
Worms, being infested with - Helminthophobia
Wrinkles, getting - Rhytiphobia
Writing - Graphophobia
Writing in public - Scriptophobia

X
X-rays or radiation - Radiophobia

Y
Yellow color - Xanthophobia.