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

...both by subject (railroad travel: siderodromomania; crossing bridges: gephyromania) and by name (trichorrhexomania: pinching off one's hair; typomania: writing for publication). Similarly organized is a catalog of more than 200 phobias, which only begins to suggest why psychiatrists will never lack for patients. Fear of the Pope is papaphobia; fear of failure, kakorraphiaphobia; fear of the flute, aulophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satisfying Verbomania | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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