PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Anxiety Disorder, Reaction Formation, Etiology
15 Jun 2013
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Excessive or unreasonable fear of specific objects or situations situations avoided, or tolerated with anxiety fear must cause some kind of dysfunction, or significant distress about having the phobia. Phobia subtypes: limited number of things or situations to which people can develop phobias. Animals: snakes, rats, mice, insects, spiders, etc. especially common among children and remains reasonably strong throughout adulthood. Environment: storms, water, dirt, heights, etc. especially common among children and remains reasonably strong throughout adulthood. Blood-injection-injury: invasive medical procedures, does not typically develop as early. Some don"t neatly fall into these categories. Other: choking, vomiting typical onset childhood young adulthood, may diminish two most common in all disorders. 9% annual, 13% lifetime prevalence in u. s. Animal phobias: 9:1 female-male ratio situational has a smaller female-male ratio. Phobic objects = symbols of inner conflict. Why there are more females than males in animal phobias. Most people have these fears without having any experiences with these objects.
