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Zoophobia

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Zoophobia, or animal phobia, is the irrational fear of or aversion toward non-human animals. It describes a general negative reaction to animals but is usually divided into many subgroups, each a specific type of zoophobia; although zoophobia as a whole is fairly rare, individual types of the fear are common, and Sigmund Freud noted that an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic conditions among children.

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Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Emotional Phenomenon 1
Diagnostic Chapter
Anxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2
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Source Zoophobia (Wikipedia)
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1. Zoophobia (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia Zoophobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)
  • In Branch: Abnormal Psychology, Categories
    Wikipedia article 'Zoophobia' is filed under Category:Zoophobias.
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2. ICD-11 Browser (WHO)
World Health Organization
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