Specific Phobias

An intense, persistent and disproportionate fear of a specific object, animal, situation or activity, recognized in clinical psychology as its own diagnostic category distinct from a general anxiety disorder because the fear response is triggered reliably by one identifiable stimulus rather than a diffuse sense of worry. This group gathers every specific, named phobia recorded for this atlas and is itself split into eight smaller groups by the object of the fear, since the live membership here is far too large for one flat list to serve a reader well; a member of this group belongs to exactly one of those eight child groups rather than to this page directly.