List of Phobias

This is a list of Phobias categorised into the groups which simplifies their main characteristic:

EXTERNAL: Situational; Natural Environment; Animal; Blood/Injury; Agoraphobia; Social;  Psycho-sexual.

INTERNAL: Obsessive-Compulsive; Hypochondriacal

There are thousands of phobias as each person has a unique system for perceiving the world and it’s threats. If the bigger picture is taken each phobia can be understood in that context and not be dismissed as ‘bizarre’.

They are ALL treatable.

EXTERNAL PHOBIAS

SPECIFIC

SITUATIONAL

Medical /Dental/Hospital

• Dentophobia           Fear of dentists
• Iatrophobia             Fear of doctors
• Nosocomephobia  Fear of hospitals

Travel/Transport

• Aerophobia Fear of flying
• Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car
• Pteromerhanophobia  Fear of flying
• Tachophobia Fear of speed

Places

• Domatophobia Fear of houses
• Ecophobia Fear of the home
• Scolionophobia Fear of school

Common Objects

• Bibliophobia Fear of books
• Catoptrophobia Fear of mirrors
• Chronomentrophobia  Fear of clocks
• Cyberphobia Fear of computers
• Mageirocophobia Fear of cooking
• Papyrophobia Fear of paper

Body Parts

• Coulrophobia Fear of clowns
• Genuphobia Fear of knees
• Podophobia Fear of feet
• Pogonophobia Fear of beards
• Necrophobia Fear of death or dead things

• SOCIAL PHOBIAS

• Androphobia Fear of men
• Anthropophobia Fear of people or society
• Aphenphosmphobia Fear of being touched
• Atelophobia Fear of imperfection
• Atychiphobia Fear of failure
• Autophobia Fear of failure
• Catagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed
• Ephebiphobia Fear of teenagers
• Gamophobia Fear of marriage
• Glossophobia Fear of speaking in public
• Gynophobia Fear of women
• Philophobia Fear of love
• Sociophobia Fear of social evaluation
• Venustraphobia Fear of beautiful women
• Xenophobia Fear of strangers or foreigners
• Obesophobia Fear of gaining weight
• Samhainophobia Fear of Halloween
• Wiccaphobia Fear of witches and witchcraft
• Pedophobia Fear of children

PSYCHO-SEXUAL PHOBIAS

• Genophobia Fear of Sexual Intercourse

INTERNAL

Hypochondriacal

• Algophobia Fear of pain
• Anginophobia Fear of angina or choking
• Arithmophobia Fear of numbers
• Bacteriophobia Fear of bacteria
• Belonephobia Fear of pins and needles
• Cacophobia Fear of ugliness
• Pathophobia Fear of disease
• Octophobia Fear of the figure 8
• Phobophobia Fear of phobias
• Somniphobia Fear of sleep
• Technophobia Fear of technology

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Ataxophobia Fear of disorder or untidiness
• Mysophobia Fear of dirt and germs
• Verminophobia Fear of germs

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

• Botanophobia Fear of plants
• Achluophobia Fear of darkness
• Acrophobia Fear of heights
• Anthophobia Fear of flowers
• Astraphobia Fear of thunder and lightning
• Barophobia Fear of gravity
• Chionophobia Fear of snow
• Chromophobia Fear of colours
• Dendrophobia Fear of trees
• Heliophobia Fear of the sun
• Hydrophobia Fear of Water
• Lilapsophobia Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes
• Ombrophobia Fear of rain
• Pteridophobia Fear of ferns
• Selenophobia Fear of the moon
• Tonitrophobia Fear of thunder
• Leukophobia Fear of the colour white
• Megalophobia Fear of large things
• Melanophobia Fear of the colour black
• Microphobia Fear of small things
• Noctiphobia Fear of the night
• Nyctophobia Fear of the dark
• Porphyrophobia  Fear of the colour purple

ANIMAL

• Alektorophobia Fear of chickens
• Arachnophobia Fear of spiders
• Bathmophobia Fear of stairs or steep slopes
• Batrachophobia Fear of amphibians
• Cynophobia Fear of dogs
• Elurophobia Fear of cats
• Entomophobia Fear of insects
• Equinophobia Fear of horses
• Herpetophobia Fear of reptiles
• Insectophobia Fear of insects
• Ophidiophobia Fear of snakes
• Ornithophobia Fear of birds
• Pyrophobia Fear of fire
• Zoophobia Fear of animals

BLOOD/INJECTION/INJURY

• Aichmophobia Fear of needles or pointed objects
• Dystychiphobia Fear of accidents
• Hemophobia Fear of blood
• Lockiophobia Fear of childbirth
• Trypanophobia Fear of needles or injections

AGORAPHOBIA

• Agoraphobia Fear of public spaces or crowds
• Claustrophobia Fear of confined spaces
• Koinoniphobia Fear of rooms full of people