Word: blakiston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same way: they are defenses against anxiety. The most common are the phobias in which?to cover up anxiety and guilt too painful to be acknowledged?people develop an irrational aversion to some act or object seemingly unconnected with their anxiety. Phobias seem to occur in dazzling profusion: Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary lists 217 of them (see box). More prevalent but less generally recognized as cover-ups for anxiety are com pulsive forms of behavior and addictions to alcohol and narcotics...