The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

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Doraphobia - Aversion to fur. I'm very tactile-oriented, and fur is one of the best things out there. En primer lugar nos encontraremos con un índice de nos llevará a las páginas de cada una de las fobias y las manías q contiene el libro,una introducción y un apartado de cómo usar el atlas,donde la autora las agrupará según la relación q posean entre sí( animales,texturas,comidas y bebidas,números etc.). Se nota q la autora ha hecho una gran labor de investigación sobre el tema q trata.

BIBLIOMANIA-I was once on here as the bibliomaniac. I got bored. I changed it. Yes I do believe I buy at least one book a day because obviously I'll be able to read all of those before I diePublic urination phobia - Speaks for itself. I think the term 'shy bladder syndrome' is more friendly- and much cuter-sounding. Todas ellas están ordenadas alfabéticamente y en cada término describiremos su nombre,definición clara y concisa y también datos y casos científicos reales bastante curiosos e interesantes(muchos de ellos se remontan a diferentes siglos)de pacientes q las han padecido y cómo han podido o no superarlas. Ich fand es sehr interessant zu lesen, dass viele Menschen unter denselben Ängsten leiden und man nicht allein mit seiner Angst ist. Informative, witty, and unique . . . Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher and other well-regarded books, lists 99 fears and compulsions, and the result is a peculiarly engaging book.” — Kirkus Plutomania - Excessive pursuit of riches. I wouldn't have become an archaeologist if so. (You're not allowed to keep the gold anymore, nowadays.)

Aibophobia - Fear of palindromes. Yes, it might seem jokey to you, but now it's spoken into existence, and it might become a real problem, just you wait and see. Dromomania - The compulsion to wander. That's what I get when I have a deadline coming up or an important task to finish. Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting. Had a classmate who suffered from this, and they weren't able to go on school trips because of it. Tulipomania - Since I'm Dutch, it's probably lingering somewhere in my genes, ready to be triggered.Mit Goldfolie verziert, sieht das Cover sehr edel aus und macht sich wunderschön in jedem Bücherschrank. Ok so let's just start with the most absurd phobia (and one I do not have) just to get into the mood:

Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher and other well-regarded books, lists 99 fears and compulsions, and the result is a peculiarly engaging book. Phobias are more common than one might think, with surveys suggesting that more than 7% of people will experience a phobia at some point. Phobias are often hard to define, although most medical researchers characterize it as an irrational fear that affects a person’s daily life. Some phobias have an evolutionary component. The fear of snakes, called ophidiophobia, makes sense given that many are poisonous. Much the same can be said for spiders and rats. However, the fears of feathers, popcorn, and balloons are odd. The fear of the number four, tetraphobia, is so deeply embedded in various Asian cultures that some hotels do not have floors or rooms with the number, apparently because in some of the region’s languages the word four sounds like the word death. As the author shows, the other side of the coin, manias, or the compulsion to act, can be just as disturbing. Hoarding falls into this category, but there are also communal manias. For example, Summerscale recounts the tale of “tulip mania” in Holland in the 1630s, when a collective obsession with tulip bulbs sent prices soaring to insane levels before crashing and ruining the economy. The author sometimes writes with her tongue in her cheek—e.g., in her descriptions of aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes, and nomophobia, the fear of losing one’s mobile phone—but she is clearly aware that phobias and manias can be serious psychological conditions. The author carefully treads the line between the oddness of her subject and sympathy for the people affected, and she notes that many phobias can be treated, usually by controlled doses of exposure. Allerdings zeigt das Cover auch meine persönliche Arachnophobie: Eine realistisch aussehende Spinne. Manche Leute könnten das Buch allein deswegen vielleicht gar nicht in die Hand nehmen. Es wirkt etwas makaber, aber ich finde es dennoch originell. Aerophobia - Fear of flying. I've sat on a plane next to a family member who was incredibly nervous, and it made me weirdly unafraid of flying. The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. Two other observations: (1) there's, unsurprisingly, a big Freudian presence in the book, just showing how much of a perv that man really was. Please can we lay him to rest; (2) I don't completely understand why homophobia and xenophobia are in here, although the author does make a case for their inclusion. Still not completely convinced.

NYCTOPHOBIA-fear of the dark which is probably ironic because I work third shift this really only occurs inside houses not outside unless there is some Blair witch project going on I never turn the lights off even when I am not here, maybe more especially when I’m not here. It's an encyclopedia describing several manias and phobias, mainly focusing on the historical aspect - how they were discovered first, what famous historical people wrote about them or suffered from them - but also including more recent 'fun facts', treatments, and explanations. Im Buch selbst finden sich immer wieder passende Illustrationen zu den jeweiligen Obsessionen, wie beispielsweise eine kleine Ratte bei „Musophobie“ oder ein paar Knöpfe bei „Koumpounophobie“. Perfect for a trivia night or a long trip, #TrainTeasers will both test your knowledge of this country`s rail system and enlighten you on the most colourful aspects of its long history. Meet trunk murderers, trainspotters, haters of railways, railway writers, Ministers for Transport good and bad, railway cats, dogs and a railway penguin. This is NOT a book for number-crunching nerds. Many of the answers are guessable by the intelligent reader. It is a quiz, yes, but also a cavalcade of historical incident and colour relating to a system that was the making of modern Britain. Here's a weirdly fun book, by Kate Summerscale. I read her book, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒓. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓, also a nonfiction, about a real murder case that ruined the reputation of a famous Victorian detective. It was made into a movie, actually three of them, that I watched and liked. But I digress.