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...waiting room in Logan Airport to a death spiral over the Atlantic. Dr. Curtis Hsia of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders calls this automatic thinking. It was even worse a few hours earlier when, as part of my treatment for a debilitating case of aviophobia (fear of flying), Dr. Hsia had booked me on Exposure Airlines. It's the newest thing in phobic therapy: a virtual airplane of hardware, software and fancy head-mounted display screens that feels like the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Aboard Exposure Airlines | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...infinity apiphobia: ... bees arachibutyrophobia: ... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth arachnophobia: ... spiders arithmophobia: ... numbers asthenophobia: ... fainting astrophobia: ... celestial space ataxiophobia: ... muscular incoordination ataxophobia: ... untidiness atelophobia: ... imperfection athazagoraphobia: ... being forgotten or ignored atychiphobia: ... failure aulophobia: ... flutes aurophobia: ... gold auroraphobia: ... northern lights automatonophobia: ... ventriloquist dummies, wax statues automysophobia: ... being dirty aviophobia: ... flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phobias From A to Z | 3/24/2001 | See Source »

...waiting room in Logan Airport to a death spiral over the Atlantic. Dr. Curtis Hsia of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders calls this automatic thinking. It was even worse a few hours earlier when, as part of my treatment for a debilitating case of aviophobia (fear of flying), Dr. Hsia had booked me on Exposure Airlines. It's the newest thing in phobic therapy: a virtual airplane of hardware, software and fancy head-mounted display screens that feels like the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Aboard Exposure Airlines | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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