during 1972 a study was undertaken in roozbeh mental hospital of tehran university to investigate the prevalence of phobias among the patients suffering from one type or another ofmental disorders. it was found that about 10 percent of the total patients visited in the hospital were suffering from phobia. moreover, darkness, corpse, crowd, pet animals, fear from cancer and syphilis accounted fo...

In a series of 387 children who claimed to remember a previous life phobias occurred in 14 1 (36%). The phobias nearly always corresponded to the mode of death in the life of the deceased person the child claimed to remember. They usually manifested between the ages of 2 and 5, and sometimes the child showed the phobia in early infancy before it had begun to speak about a previous life. The pho...

The role of disgust in childhood phobias has received limited attention in the psychiatric literature. Available studies suggest that attention to the emotion of disgust is optimal for reduction of phobic symptoms given that the interaction between fear and disgust has been found to maintain and even exacerbate phobias. Disgust was targeted via imagery exposures as part of an exposure-based cog...

An epidemiological questionnaire survey of the prevalence of the various types of phobias was undertaken among the Icelandic population. Out of 1,000 individuals surveyed, in accord with national census data held in Reykjavík, 775 questionnaires were returned. Results confirmed that among Icelanders, phobic symptoms overall are more prevalent among women than men. Prevalence rates were lower fo...