English

Noun

agoraphobias

1. plural of agoraphobia

   Paul Dubois, Smith Ely Jelliffe, William A. (William Alanson) White, The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders (1909) p. 366.

   • They extend to obsessions, to agoraphobias, and they encourage those thus afflicted to go a few steps every day along the way of which they stand in horror.

   Jerrold S. and Ward, Nicholas G. Maxmen, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment (1995) p. 261.

   • Among the phobias, simple phobias are most common in the population, but agoraphobias are most common in the office.

   David H Barlow, Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic (2002) p. 240

   • ...48% of patients with animal phobias, 58% of those with social phobias, 61% of those with blood and dental phobias, 69% of those with claustrophobias, and 91% of those with agoraphobias identified direct conditioning histories.