The book of phobias & manias: a history of obsession

Introduction

How to use this book

A - Z of phobias and manias. Ablutophobia (washing) ; Aboulomania (indecisiveness) ; Acarophobia (tiny insects) ; Acrophobia (heights) ; Aerophobia (flying) ; Agoraphobia (open spaces) ; Aibohphobia (plaindromes) ; Ailurophobia (cats) ; Aquaphobia (water) ; Arachnophobia (spiders) ; Arithmomania (counting)

Bambakomallophobia (cotton wool) ; Batrachophobia (frogs) ; Beatlemania (The Beatles) ; Bibliomania (books) ; Blood-injection-injury phobia ; Brontophobia (thunder)

Choreomania (dancing) ; Claustrophobia (confined spaces) ; Coulrophobia (clowns) ; Cynophobia (dogs)

Demonomania (The Devil) ; Dermatillomania (skin-picking) ; Dipsomania (alcohol) ; Doraphobia (fur) ; Dromomania (walking

Egomania (oneself) ; Emetophobia (vomiting) ; Entomophobia (insects) ; Ergophobia (work) ; Erotomania (love) ; Erythrophobia (blushing)

Fykiaphobia (seaweed)

Gelotophobia (mockery) ; Gerascophobia (ageing) ; Giftomania ; Globlophobia (balloons) ; Glossophobia (public speaking) ; Graphomania (writing

Haphemania (teaching) ; Haphephobia (being touched) ; Hippophobia (horses) ; Hippopotomonstrosesquiphedaliophobia (long words) ; Homocidal monomania (killing) ; Homophobia (homosexuality) ; Hydrophobia (water) ; Hypnophobia (sleep) ; Hypophobia (nothing much)

Kayak phobia (kayaks) ; Klazomania (shouting) ; Kleptomania (stealing) ; Koumpounophobia (buttons)

Laughing mania ; Lypemania (sadness)

Megalomania (self-importance) ; Micromania (shrinking) ; Monomania (one thing) ; Monophobia (solitude) ; Musophobia (rats and mice) ; Mysophobia (germs) ; Mythomania (lying)

Nomophobia (mobile phones) ; Nyctophobia (darkness) ; Nymphomania (sex)

Odontophobia (dentists) ; Oniomania (shopping) ; Onomatomania (one word) ; Onychotillomania (nail-pulling) ; Ophidiophobia (snakes) ; Ornithophobia (birds) ; Osmophobia (smells) ; Ovophobia (eggs)

Pantophobia (everything) ; Pediophobia (dolls) ; Phonophobia (noises) ; Plutomania (riches) ; Pnigophobia (choking) ; Pogonophobia (beards) ; Popcorn phobia ; Pteronophobia (feathers) ; Public urination phobia ; Pyromania (fire)

Sedatephobia (silence) ; Siderodromophobia (trains) ; Social phobia ; Syllogomania (hoarding)

Taphephobia (being buried alive) ; Telephonophobia (telephones) ; Tetraphobia (four) ; Thalassophobia (seas) ; Tokophobia (giving birth) ; Trichomania (hair) ; Trichotillomania (hair-plucking) ; Triskaidekaphobia (thirteen) ; Trypophobia (holes) ; Tulipomania (tulips)

Xenophobia (foreigners) ; Xylophobia (forests)

Zoophobia (animals)

Phobias

Manias.