Word: claustrophobia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even for the privileged, the feeling of social claustrophobia is tightened by a system of conscription which makes the campus a draft haven and which distorts career choices in an effort to avoid service in a war nobody wants to fight. The deep misgivings about the war, compounded by the immorality of using an inequitable draft to fight it, generate a bitter skepticism of the values which motivate all established authority...
...larger study done this January, Cohen advertised for subjects through newspapers, radio and TV. He received around 325 replies from people with acrophobia, public speaking anxiety, and claustrophobia. He then treated 48 of the acrophobiacs with apparent success, although the results have not yet been thoroughly analyzed...
TIME'S Sider took one out on Ford's Dearborn test track, found that "It is no Lincoln, but neither is it a VW. There is no feeling of claustrophobia. It handles well, staying in tight on the curves, starting and stopping fast, turning about as sharply...
...Harvard Center for Research in Personality would like to cure you. Under the direction of Bruce L. Baker, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology in Social Relations, the Center will continue last year's free clinic for treating and curing cases of acrophobia (fear of heights), claustrophobia (fear of closed spaces), and fear of speaking in public...
There are many types of phobia. According to Dr. Baker, these particular three were chosen because they have been eliminated by clinical treatment in the past. So far, 70 people have signed up for therapy in public speaking. The respondents for claustrophobia and acrophobia have been fewer, and these programs may be temporarily deferred. Treatment for the phobia consists of twice-weekly sessions which last for two months...