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Mit Goldfolie verziert, sieht das Cover sehr edel aus und macht sich wunderschön in jedem Bücherschrank. With her eye for evocative period detail, her sensitivity to the quirks and poignancies of human motivation, and her brilliant storytelling skills, Summerscale has taken this corker of a case and made it as gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read.” —Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet Fykiaphobia - Fear of seaweed. I love seaweed, I eat it, I drink it, I slather it on my skin. Seaweed's great. The book is divided by the alphabet. I find that a tad disappointing because I would have liked them separated by category like in the introduction. That would have been much more helpful. Bonus phobia: arithmomania-the desire to count or preoccupation with math "but this one goes to 11"
This fascinating compendium traces phobias and manias through their rich social, cultural and medical history. We learn that in the US, a third of all people with phobias suffer from a terror of cats (ailurophobia) or dogs (cynophobia). As well as well-known behaviours, Summerscale highlights less obvious fears such as hippophobia (fear of horses, made famous in Freud’s “Little Hans” case study) and coulrophobia (a morbid fear of clowns). The Fell Mrs. A was terrified of cats. She couldn’t bear the sight of them. The feeling of fur on her clothing caused her anxiety—pictures of cats, even toys that resembled felines (like her daughter’s stuffed koala) upset her.
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GERASCOPHOBIA- fear of growing old “no more adulting thank you” my pharmacy director will stare at my face and say as if in awe”you don’t have any wrinkles just the tiny ones by your eyes you don’t even have them on your forehead” I’m 50 years fabulous. Also I keep telling my daughter to lie about her age so when I lie about mine it makes sense
What an utterly fascinating book! This is essentially an A-Z of all the neuroses in the world. Yes there are plenty of us scared of spiders (arachnophobia) and heights (acrophobia) but have you ever heard of phonophobia (fear of noises), trypophobia (fear of holes) and even koumpounophobia (fear of buttons)? Nope, me neither, but they’re all here. I was clearly more intrigued by what scares people than what they are excited by or feel compelled to do, but as the author writes at some point, aversion and attraction are two sides of the same coin. They both equal obsession. When you fear something to the point of it being a phobia, you are constantly on the lookout for it. In wishing to avoid it, you are constantly making it the center of your thoughts and experiences. Agoraphobia/Social phobia - Fear of open spaces/going out/being around other people. I had a milder, discount version of this when I was depressed. The social phobia sometimes still rears its ugly head. Anschließend werden die einzelnen Obsessionen anhand von Fallbeispielen erläutert. Der Schreibstiel hat mir dabei sehr gut gefallen.
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La edición es sencilla pero muy completa, de tapa dura como nos tiene acostumbrad@s esta editorial. Here's my very professional assessment of the phobias and manias I, my friends, and/or family might have - and the ones I definitely don't have. Inspired by another reviewer: Erythrophobia - Fear of blushing. Teenage and early 20s me suffered this; sometimes I started blushing before talking to someone because I was afraid I would anyway. It doesn't help that I have that Northern European rosacea-prone skin. Demonomania - The feeling that you're possessed by demons. Only when I'm in my extreme PMS/PMDD phase of the month. Cynophobia - Fear of dogs. A friend of mine gets completely paralysed when she sees a dog. It seems an especially difficult fear in the modern world. I had this as a kid because my aunt & uncle's kuvasz dogs (an extremely large breed) ran over me when I was small.
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