There's a Greek-prefix-plus-phobia word for almost everything.

Iatrophobia is a fear of doctors, nosocomephobia of hospitals, pharmacophobia of drugs.

I read recently, however, that these days psychologists just use the pedestrian word for the thing following by, "phobia"; thus, cat phobia, not ailurophobia. Why daunt the already troubled phobic with big words? What if they have a fear of big words? Does hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia really improve matters?

But why not start out by browsing Wiki's long list of phobias?

Last edited by Hydra; 06/24/08 04:41 PM. Reason: Corrected misspell