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  2. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    fear of deleting files or an extreme fear of losing your computer data. [22] Domatophobia: fear of houses: Driving phobia, driving anxiety fear of driving: Dysmorphophobia, body dysmorphic disorder: a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect Dystichiphobia: fear of being involved in an accident [23]

  3. Object of the mind - Wikipedia

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    Many objects in fiction follow the example of false antecedents or false consequents. For example, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is based on an imaginary book. In the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's characters name the Red Book of Westmarch as the source material for The Lord of the Rings, which they describe as a ...

  4. Fear processing in the brain - Wikipedia

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    In fear conditioning, the main circuits that are involved are the sensory areas that process the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, certain regions of the amygdala that undergo plasticity (or long-term potentiation) during learning, and the regions that bear an effect on the expression of specific conditioned responses. These pathways ...

  5. Fear - Wikipedia

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion that arises in response to perceived dangers or threats. Fear causes physiological and psychological changes. It may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response. Extreme cases of fear can trigger an immobilized freeze ...

  6. Exposure hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    When designing an exposure hierarchy, therapists first conduct a thorough assessment of their client's fear with particular attention to the (a) feared object or situation, (b) feared consequences of confronting the object, (c) fear-related avoidance or safety behaviors, and (d) triggers and contexts of the fear. [3]

  7. Jungian archetypes - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary cinema is a rich source of archetypal images, most commonly evidenced for instance in the hero archetype: the one who saves the day and is young and inexperienced, like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, [65] or older and cynical, like Rick Blaine in Casablanca. [60]

  8. Phobophobia - Wikipedia

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    Phobophobia is a fear experienced before actually experiencing the fear of the feared phobias its somatic sensations that precede it, which is preceded by generalized anxiety disorders and can generate panic attacks. Like all the phobias, the patients avoids the feared phobia in order to avoid the fear of it.

  9. The Concept of Anxiety - Wikipedia

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    The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin (Danish: Begrebet Angest. En simpel psychologisk-paapegende Overveielse i Retning af det dogmatiske Problem om Arvesynden) is a philosophical work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844.