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Equinophobia

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Equinophobia, or hippophobia, is a psychological fear of horses, whose sufferers may also fear other hoofed animals such as donkeys and mules. The term equinophobia derives from the Ancient Greek phobos, fear, combined with the Latin equus, horse, while hippophobia derives the same Greek root combined with the Greek hippos, horse; an example of the phobia appears in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic study of Little Hans.

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Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Emotional Phenomenon 1
Diagnostic Chapter
Anxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2
Sources
1. Equinophobia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Equinophobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)View the Source
2. ICD-11 Browser (WHO)
World Health Organization
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