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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
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