Delightful period piece . . . always prescient about the social status of the women she studies, Summerscale notes that Alma was the very model of a colorless, faceless, powerless housewife. But a housewife with psychic powers could escape those social constraints.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review 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“. Claustrophobia - Fear of enclosed spaces. This is possibly the only one I actually really suffer from. Not extremely, but I have been in situations where I broke out in cold sweats and tears when I was in a small space.

Here's my very professional assessment of the phobias and manias I, my friends, and/or family might have - and the ones I definitely don't have. Inspired by another reviewer:Mythomania - Compulsive lying. There's been a few around me. It's a weird one, this. People can't stop even when they know you don't believe them. I've always been fascinated by it, but it's no fun being on the 'receiving' end. Glossophobia - Fear of public speaking. Had this as a teenager, too, so much so that I often broke out into tears or felt extremely nauseous beforehand. It's mostly gone now. God, this list is making my teenage self look like a complete fool. Sorry, teenage self.

Mrs. A was terrified of cats. She couldn’t bear the sight of them. The feeling of fur on her clothing caused her anxiety—pictures of cats, even toys that resembled felines (like her daughter’s stuffed koala) upset her. What an utterly fascinating book! This is essentially an A-Z of all the neuroses in the world. Yes there are plenty of us scared of spiders (arachnophobia) and heights (acrophobia) but have you ever heard of phonophobia (fear of noises), trypophobia (fear of holes) and even koumpounophobia (fear of buttons)? Nope, me neither, but they’re all here. This fascinating compendium traces phobias and manias through their rich social, cultural and medical history. We learn that in the US, a third of all people with phobias suffer from a terror of cats (ailurophobia) or dogs (cynophobia). As well as well-known behaviours, Summerscale highlights less obvious fears such as hippophobia (fear of horses, made famous in Freud’s “Little Hans” case study) and coulrophobia (a morbid fear of clowns). The Fell A phobia is a persistent, overwhelming and debilitating fear, often with irrational cause. For the purposes of diagnosis, that fear must interfere with normal functioning. In her introduction, Summerscale discusses how some fears are considered to have a evolutionary purpose, a reflex to protect us from external threats, like snakes (Ophidiophobia) for example. Others may be a result of personal experience, for example someone may develop a fear of dogs (cynophobia) after being bitten by one; or cultural conditioning, like the fear of being without a mobile phone (nomophobia). Some fears, like most mania’s, may be related to chemical imbalances in the brain. A mania is often an overwhelming compulsion to do something, like stealing (kleptomania) or oniomania (shopping). A mania may also stem from a delusion, such as the false belief that one is desired (erotomania), and can affect clusters of people. GERASCOPHOBIA- fear of growing old “no more adulting thank you” my pharmacy director will stare at my face and say as if in awe”you don’t have any wrinkles just the tiny ones by your eyes you don’t even have them on your forehead” I’m 50 years fabulous. Also I keep telling my daughter to lie about her age so when I lie about mine it makes senseThe 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. Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting. Had a classmate who suffered from this, and they weren't able to go on school trips because of it. Esta completa obra consta de 312 páginas donde la autora recoge a modo de “diccionario” diferentes fobias y manías( un total de 99 aproximadamente)poniéndole así nombre a todo lo q nos asusta y obsesiona. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. And then let’s not forget about the mania - we all remember beatlemania in the 60s bit what about oniomania (shopping), nymphomania (sex), plutomania (riches) and of course something we could all identify with - bibliomania (books)!

In „Das Buch der Phobien & Manien“ nimmt uns Kate Summerscale mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die vielschichtige Welt der menschlichen Ängste und Obsessionen. Mithilfe von Fallstudien und einer sorgfältig recherchierten historischen Perspektive führt uns Summerscale durch die Geschichte, beginnend im Mittelalter bis hin zur heutigen Zeit.

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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. BEATLEMANIA: yes that's in the book. Although it typically comprises those teeny bloopers from the '60s it can also include the criers. I am that crier. That is all. Ovophobia - Fear of/aversion to eggs. This seems like a rare one and yet I know someone who likely has it: they can't even stand the smell of them! Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.