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During the course of the trial, three doctors expressed the opinion that the book served a very useful purpose. [ 5 ] In 1959 Chesser resigned from the British Medical Association after the BMA decided that no further copies of a booklet to which he had contributed, entitled 'Getting Married', should be issued.
This fear as a child can be easily treated in much the same way that doctors deal with children in surgery. An explanation or example (like seeing the doctor check an older sibling, or a stuffed animal) can help a child feel more comfortable with what the doctor will do for them. Fear of doctors for adults can be extreme.
Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias , a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago .
Doctors started including a cognitive component to pain, leading to the gate control theory and the discovery of the placebo effect. Psychological factors that affect pain include self-efficacy , anxiety, fear, abuse, life stressors, and pain catastrophizing, which is particularly responsive to behavioral interventions. [ 7 ]
The condition is associated with the fear of contracting the disease in question. Some authors suggested that the condition must be referred to as nosophobia [ 1 ] [ 2 ] rather than "hypochondriasis", because the quoted studies show a very low percentage of hypochondriacal character of the condition, and hence the term "hypochondriasis" would ...
Fear of children, or occasionally called paedophobia, is fear triggered by the presence or thinking of children or infants. It is an emotional state of fear, disdain, aversion, or prejudice toward children. Paedophobia is in some usages identical to ephebiphobia. [1] [2] [3]
Children during their developmental stages experience fears. Fear is a natural part of self-preservation. Fears allow children to act with the necessary cautions to stay safe. [5] According to Child and Adolescent Mental Health, "such fears vary in frequency, intensity, and duration; they tend to be mild, age-specific, and transitory."
Blood-injection-injury (BII) type phobia is a type of specific phobia [1] [2] characterized by the display of excessive, irrational fear in response to the sight of blood, injury, or injection, or in anticipation of an injection, injury, or exposure to blood. [3] Blood-like stimuli (paint, ketchup) may also cause a reaction. [4]