Zoophobia
Zoophobia, or animal phobia, is the irrational fear or aversion towards non-human animals. Zoophobia is the general negative reaction to animals, but it is usually divided into many subgroups, each being of a specific type of zoophobia. Although zoophobia as a whole is quite rare, types of the fear are common.[1] As mentioned before by Sigmund Freud, an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic diseases among children.[2] Zoophobia is almost never towards mammals, but instead towards non-mammalia creatures. A list of common zoophobias is shown below.
| Phobia | Condition |
|---|---|
| Ailurophobia | fear of cats |
| Arachnophobia | fear of arachnids |
| Batrachophobia | fear of amphibians |
| Chiroptophobia | fear of bats |
| Cynophobia | fear of dogs |
| Entomophobia | fear of insects |
| Equinophobia | fear of horses |
| Ichthyophobia | fear of fish |
| Katsaridaphobia | fear of cockroaches |
| Lepidopterophobia | fear of butterflies and/or moths |
| Melissophobia | fear of bees |
| Molluscophobia | fear of snails and slugs |
| Musophobia | fear of mice and rats |
| Ophidiophobia | fear of snakes |
| Ornithophobia | fear of birds |
| Ostraconophobia | fear of shellfish |
| Pachydermophobia | fear of elephants |
| Ranidaphobia | fear of frogs |
| Scoliodentosaurophobia | fear of lizards, geckos |
| Vermiphobia | fear of worms |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Morales-Brown, Peter (2020-07-27). "Zoophobia: Causes, symptoms, and treatment". www.medicalnewstoday.com. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ Nandor Fodor, Frank Gaynor, "Freud: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis", 2004: ISBN 0-7607-5301-6 (initial publ. 1950), article "Zoophobia, infantile", pp. 205-206
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