different types of Augustine-Gibson 2 fears known as phobias which are abnormal or irrational fears of specific things. Phobias are an irrational fear to a person‚ place or object and they are classified as an anxiety disorder. Phobias (fears) affect approximately nineteen million individuals‚ with fears ranging from blood to women and everything in between. The word phobia comes from the Greek word‚ Phobos‚ meaning fear. The most well-known phobia is most likely arachnophobia‚ which is the fear of
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Fear comes in many forms. One of the worst forms of having fear is having a phobia. There once was a very successful man named George Kaufman. He had a horrible in dept‚ phobia of germs. In this essay I will be using Mr. Kaufman to illustrate the seriousness of having phobias that you have to live with every second‚ of every day in your life. Phobias are a very serious disease. When you have a phobia it means that you have an extreme fear of something‚ object or situation‚
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abhorred since the beginning of time. The subfield that is primarily connected with phobia is psychoanalytical psychology‚ behavioral psychology and neuropsychology. According to our text‚ Psychoanalysis is a method of therapy based on Freud’s theory of personality‚ in which the therapist attempts to bring repressed unconscious material into consciousness (Baron& Kalsher‚ 2008). Behavioral psychology is a school of psychology that clarifies all mental and bodily activity in terms of reaction by
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particular those that constitute modern medical therapeutics.” (Source 2) Thus this essay will describe Dr. Wolpe‚ a theorist in the realm of cognitive behavior therapy. Dr. Wolpe believed that since some phobias could be‚ “learned through classical conditioning‚” (Text book pg.74) then fears and phobias are essentially learned and thus consequently can be unlearned. This is the basic concept that he uses for not only understanding the illness but also for treatment. Thus cognitive behavior therapy essentially
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desensitization program when practically applied has been proven to be highly affective and has become the leading treatment for phobias and anxiety (Sapp‚ 2004). Put simply‚ since this system assumes that phobias are learned‚ and therefore can be unlearned‚ it provides a process to help people accomplish this using a controlled exposure to whatever the focus of the phobia may be. It thereby helps to take away the individuals reactivity to the particular object. To prepare for the process‚ the individual
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OVER COME ARACHNOPHOBIA Signpost. Blaine P. Friedlander‚ Jr. states there are two ways to cure arachnophobia‚ exposure‚ and education. A. Exposure therapy 1. Exposure therapy is one of the ways people with arachnophobia can overcome their phobia. Shayna Brouker stated that this exposure therapy consist of 3 things; education‚ touching the spider to show that the spider is more scared of you than it is of it‚ and talk therapy to change the way people react when their terror is triggered by
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Tiffany Gilkerson September 24‚ 2013 1st period Marks‚ Isaac M. “Fears‚ phobias‚ and rituals: Panic‚ anxiety‚ and their disorders.” 2012: xvii 682. Book. In Fears‚ phobias‚ and rituals: Panic‚ anxiety‚ and their disorders‚ Isaac Marks has written a synthesis of information on the nature of fear‚ panic‚ and anxiety disorders. His book offers both a detailed discussion of the clinical aspects of fear-related syndromes and a broad exploration of the sources and mechanisms of fear and defensive
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older‚ a few may suffer badly from phobias. These are unreasonable fears‚ which send one’s body and mind into panic. Some of the common phobias are a fear of heights‚ spiders‚ and closed places‚ flying in planes‚ speaking in public‚ injections or blood. There are also endless uncommon phobias‚ including fear of running water‚ swallowing solid food and even going to the hairdresser’s. Everyone is mildly phobic about something‚ it is natural. But when your phobia spoils your life it’s time to do something
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About a Pretty Sunset” “Talking shit about a pretty sunset‚” is a song that portrays an overall apathetic outlook on life. The listener can clearly hear the discontent expressed in the words sung and the execution in the music. Thoughts of suicide‚ phobia of commitment‚ lack and gain of motivation‚ fixation and illusions of a better life are all present. Through the complex breaks and climax of the song‚ tells an emotional story of revelation‚ realization and self-actualization. From the beginning
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Phobias and Addictions Chris Miller PSY/300 April 7‚ 2013 Dr. Pamela Allen Just as basic behaviors are developed through operant and classical conditioning‚ so are addictions and phobias. Establishing the differences of classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning‚ how phobias and addictions are related‚ and the following extinctions of both conditions are what will be discussed. Phobias and
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