Stories
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Finding solidarity in arachnophobia
Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
- Article
How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
Catalogue
- Videos
Phobia : a case study.
Date: 2004- Film
Phobia : the hidden disorder.
Date: 1978- Books
Phobia : a comprehensive summary of modern treatments / edited by Robert L. DuPont.
Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
Phobias / Heather Buchanan and Neil Coulson.
Buchanan, Heather, Dr.Date: 2012- Archives and manuscripts
'Phobias: school'
Date: c.1930s-1980sReference: PP/BOW/H.232Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)