Thursday, January 11, 2007

Types of social phobia

There are several types of social phobia. Among them there are:
  • anthropophobia – fear of people in general
  • anuptaphobia – fear of loneliness, celibacy
  • atelophobia – fear of imperfection
  • atihiphobia – fear to fail
  • autophobia – fear to loose a close person
  • bromhydrophobia – fear that someone may notice bad smell and sweat of one’s body
  • cacophobia – fear of ugliness
  • coitophobia – fear of sex
  • colpophobia – fear of woman’s genitals
  • contrectophobia – fear of sexual abuse
  • deipnophobia – fear of conversation at meals
  • demophobia – fear of crowd
  • dismorphophobia – fear of ugliness of one’s body
  • dorophobia – fear to receive and give presents
  • gerontophobia – fear of old people and becoming old
  • glossophobia – fear to perform in public
  • gymnophobia – fear of nudity
  • gynecophobia – fear of women
  • hamartophobia – feat to do a bad deed
  • hamophobia – fear of marriage
  • haptophobia – fear of touch
  • harpaxophobia – fear of robbers
  • hedonophobia – fear of pleasure and joy
  • heleophobia – fear of laughter
  • heterophobia – fear of opposite sex
  • hobophobia – fear of beggar
  • homicidophobia – fear to kill a human
  • hominophobia – fear of men
  • homophobia – fear of homosexuals
  • intimophobia – fear of the first copulation
  • itiphallophobia – fear of penis
  • lalophobia – fear to speak
  • logophobia – fear to speak wrong words
  • monophobia – fear of loneliness
  • partenophobia – fear of virgins
  • pedophobia – fear of children
  • penteraphobia – fear of the mother-in-law
  • philemaphobia – fear to kiss with somebody
  • philophobia – fear to fall in love with somebody
  • phonophobia – fear to speak on the phone
  • scopophobia – fear to appear funny, to draw attention
  • sociophobia – fear of society in general
  • soteriophobia – fear to depend on others
  • syngenesophobia – fear of relatives
  • telephonophobia – fear of telephone
  • venstraphobia – fear of beautiful women
  • verbophobia – fear of words
  • virginitiphobia – fear to be raped
  • xenophobia – fear of foreigner and strangers
  • zelophobia – fear of jealousy
Of course, this is not a complete list of social phobias but it is quite typical and demonstrative.

1 comment:

social avoidance said...

Hi Martina, I'm glad I found your blog, very interesting medical perspective. I will be reading it.

I will add to your list: Fear to beeing rejected by others.

If you want to check my blog about social anxiety you can go to:

http://socialanxietyblog.blogspot.com , it would be great to hear your thoughts on it, they are my personal experiences and thoughts about social anxiety.