Word: claustrophobia
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...little of both. Shortly after his arrest last year, police say he suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized. One suspected cause, an insider told Time: clinical claustrophobia. Like others close to Milosevic, he also feared for his own and his family's safety and may have calculated that he would be better off with the new powers than prey to hired hit teams on the streets of Belgrade. He remains the only ex-official to have been charged but not yet jailed. There are other canaries that may be ready to sing. Last week, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said...
...cataloged alphabetically. Some have more to do with neology than psychology. (It's one thing to invent a word like arachibutyrophobia, another thing to find someone who's really afraid of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.) Other phobias, however--like acrophobia (fear of heights), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) and agoraphobia (a crushing, paralyzing terror of anything outside the safety of the home)--can be deadly serious business...
...cacophobia: ... ugliness cainophobia: ... newness, novelty caligynephobia: ... beautiful women carcinophobia: ... cancer cardiophobia: ... the heart carnophobia: ... meat catagelophobia: ... being ridiculed catapedaphobia: ... jumping ceraunophobia: ... thunder chaetophobia: ... hair chemophobia: ... chemicals cherophobia: ... gaiety chionophobia: ... snow chiraptophobia: ... being touched cholerophobia: ... anger chorophobia: ... dancing chrometophobia: ... money chromophobia: ... colors chronomentrophobia: ... clocks cibophobia: ... food claustrophobia: ... confined spaces cleisiophobia: ... being locked in climacophobia: ... stairs clinophobia: ... going to bed coimetrophobia: ... cemeteries contreltophobia: ... sexual abuse coprastasophobia: ... constipation coprophobia: ... feces coulrophobia: ... clowns cremnophobia: ... precipices cryophobia: ... extreme cold crystallophobia: ... crystals, glass cyclophobia: ... bicycles
...Claustrophobia...
...peace deal - or even a face-saving declaration - is cultivating compromises that each side can market as the realization of the objectives for which it fought in the first place. But whatever is achieved in the emotional, pressure-cooker atmosphere of sequestered peace talks - which in their design induce claustrophobia and the very human desire to simply bring the nightmare to an end in the minds of negotiators from both sides - is inevitably subject to sharply conflicting interpretations once the negotiators return home. All of which suggests that President Clinton won't be able to claim ending the Israeli-Palestinian...