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Alphabetical List of Phobias and Fears which are all treatable using hypnotherapy, EFT and other techniques. (This list is not exhaustive and is for illustration only)

 

Ablutophobia

Fear of washing, bathing, or cleaning

Acarophobia

Fear of itching or the insects that cause itching

Acerophobia

Fear of sourness or things that are sour

Achluophobia

Fear of darkness or the dark

Acousticophobia

Fear of noise or sound

Acrophobia

Fear of heights or high levels

Aeroacrophobia

Fear of open high places

Aeronausiphobia

Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness

Aerophobia

Fear of draft, swallowing air, or airborne noxious substances

Agateophobia

Fear of insanity or becoming insane

Agliophobia

Fear of pain

Agoraphobia

Fear of open spaces, leaving a safe place, or crowded public places

Agraphobia

Fear of sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia

Fear of wild animals

Agyrophobia

Fear of streets or crossing the street

Aichmophobia

Fear of needles, pins, or pointed objects

Ailurophobia

Fear of cats

Albuminurophobia

Fear of kidney disease

Alektorophobia

Fear of chickens

Algophobia

Fear of garlic

Alliumphobia

Fear of opinions or beliefs

Altophobia

Fear of dust

Amathophobia

Fear of riding in cars

Amaxophobia

Fear of walking

Amnesiphobia

Fear of amnesia

Amychophobia

Fear of scratches or being scratched

Anablephobia

Fear of looking up

Androphobia

Fear of men

Anemophobia

Fear of wind or air drafts

Anginophobia

Fear of angina, choking, or narrowness

Anglophobia

Fear of England, English Culture, or English People

Angrophobia

Fear of anger or becoming angry

Ankylophobia

Fear of immobility of a joint

Anthophobia

Fear of flowers

Anthropophobia

Fear of people or society

Antlophobia

Fear of floods

Anuptaphobia

Fear of staying single

Anxiety

Fear of Anxiety

Apeirophobia

Fear of infinity

Aphenphosmphobia

Fear of being touched

Apiphobia

Fear of bees

Apotemnophobia

Fear of persons with amputations

Arachibutyrophobia

Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Arachnephobia

Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia

Fear of numbers

Arsonphobia

Fear of fire or flames

Asthenophobia

Fear of fainting or weakness

Astraphobia

Fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia

Fear of stars & celestial space

Asymmetriphobia

Fear of asymmetrical things

Ataxiophobia

Fear of ataxia (muscular in-coordination)

Ataxophobia

Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia

Fear of imperfection

Atephobia

Fear of ruin or ruins

Athazagoraphobia

Fear of being forgotten, being ignored, or forgetting

Atomosophobia

Fear of atomic explosions

Atychiphobia

Fear of failure

Aulophobia

Fear of flutes

Aurophobia

Fear of gold

Auroraphobia

Fear of Northern lights

Autodysomophobia

Fear of one that has a vile odour

Automatonophobia

Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronics or wax statues

Automysophobia

Fear of being dirty

Autophobia

Fear of solitude, being alone, oneself, or being by oneself

Aviophobia

Fear of flying

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Bacillophobia

Fear of microbes

Bacteriophobia

Fear of bacteria

Ballistophobia

Fear of missiles or bullets

Barophobia

Fear of gravity

Basiphobia

Fear of inability to stand or falling

Bathmophobia

Fear of stairs or steep slopes

Bathophobia

Fear of depth

Batophobia

Fear of heights or being close to high buildings

Batrachophobia

Fear of amphibians, frogs, newts, or salamanders

Bibliophobia

Fear of books

Blennophobia

Fear of slime

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Fear of having ugly or unattractive features

Bogyphobia

Fear of bogies or the bogeyman

Bolshephobia

Fear of Bolsheviks

Botanophobia

Fear of plants

Bromidrophobia

Fear of bodily odour or bodily smell

Bufonophobia

Fear of toads

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Cacophobia

Fear of ugliness or things that are ugly

Cainophobia

Fear of newness or novelty

Caligynephobia

Fear of beautiful women

Cancerophobia

Fear of cancer

Cardiophobia

Fear of the heart

Carnophobia

Fear of meat

Catagelophobia

Fear of being ridiculed or ridicule

Catapedaphobia

Fear of jumping from high & low places

Cathisophobia

Fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia

Fear of mirrors

Cheimaphobia

Fear of cold

Chemophobia

Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals

Cherophobia

Fear of gaiety

Chionophobia

Fear of snow

Chirophobia

Fear of hands

Cholerophobia

Fear of anger or Cholera

Chorophobia

Fear of dancing

Chrematophobia

Fear of money

Chromatophobia

Fear of colours

Chronomentrophobia

Fear of clocks

Chronophobia

Fear of time

Claustrophobia

Fear of confined or small spaces

Cleisiophobia

Fear of being locked in an enclosed place

Cleithrophobia

Fear of being enclosed

Cleptophobia

Fear of stealing

Climacophobia

Fear of stairs, climbing stairs, or falling down stairs

Clinophobia

Fear of going to bed

Cnidophobia

Fear of stings or being stung

Coimetrophobia

Fear of cemeteries

Coitophobia

Fear of coitus, sex, or sexual intercourse

Cometophobia

Fear of comets

Coprastasophobia

Fear of constipation

Coprophobia

Fear of faeces & faecal matter

Coulrophobia

Fear of clowns

Counterphobia

Fear of The preference by a phobic for fearful situations

Cremnophobia

Fear of precipices

Cryophobia

Fear of extreme cold, ice, or frost

Crystallophobia

Fear of crystals or glass

Cyberphobia

Fear of computers or working on a computer

Cyclophobia

Fear of bicycles

Cymophobia

Fear of waves or wave-like motion

Cynophobia

Fear of dogs, canines, or rabies

Cyprianophobia

Fear of prostitutes, venereal disease, or STDs

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Daemonophobia

Fear of demons or daemons

Decidophobia

Fear of making decisions

Defecaloesiophobia

Fear of painful bowels movements

Deipnophobia

Fear of dining or dinner conversation

Demophobia

Fear of crowds

Dendrophobia

Fear of trees

Dentophobia

Fear of dentists

Dermatopathophobia

Fear of skin disease or skin lesions

Dextrophobia

Fear of objects at the right side of the body

Diabetophobia

Fear of diabetes

Didaskaleinophobia

Fear of going to school

Dikephobia

Fear of justice

Dinophobia

Fear of dizziness or whirlpools

Diplophobia

Fear of double vision

Dipsophobia

Fear of drinking

Dishabiliophobia

Fear of undressing in front of someone

Doraphobia

Fear of fur or skins of animals

Doxophobia

Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise

Driving Phobia

Fear of driving a motorized vehicle

Dromophobia

Fear of crossing streets

Dutchphobia

Fear of the Netherlands, the Dutch, Dutch Culture

Dysmorphophobia

Fear of deformity

Dystychiphobia

Fear of accidents

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Earthquakophobia

Fear of earthquakes

Ecclesiophobia

Fear of churches

Eisoptrophobia

Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia

Fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia

Fear of freedom

Emetophobia

Fear of vomiting or throwing up

Enetophobia

Fear of pins

Enissophobia

Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or criticism

Entomophobia

Fear of insects or bugs

Eosophobia

Fear of dawn or daylight

Ephebiphobia

Fear of teenagers

Epistaxiophobia

Fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia

Fear of knowledge

Equinophobia

Fear of horses

Eremophobia

Fear of being oneself or loneliness

Ereuthophobia

Fear of red lights, blushing, or the colour red

Ergasiophobia

Fear of work, functioning, or Surgeon's operating

Ergophobia

Fear of work

Erotophobia

Fear of sexual love or sexual questions

Euphobia

Fear of hearing good news

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Francophobia

Fear of France, French people, or French culture

Frigophobia

Fear of cold or cold things

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Gamophobia

Fear of marriage

Geliophobia

Fear of laughter

Geniophobia

Fear of chins

Genuphobia

Fear of knees

Gephydrophobia

Fear of crossing bridges

Gerascophobia

Fear of growing old or old people

Germanophobia

Fear of Germany, German People, or German culture

Geumaphobia

Fear of taste

Globophobia

Fear of balloons

Glossophobia

Fear of speaking in public or trying to speak

Graphophobia

Fear of writing or handwriting

Gymnophobia

Fear of nudity

Gynephobia

Fear of women

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Hadephobia

Fear of hell

Hagiophobia

Fear of saints or holy things

Harpaxophobia

Fear of being robbed

Hedonophobia

Fear of feeling pleasure

Heliophobia

Fear of the sun

Hellenologophobia

Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology

Helminthophobia

Fear of being infested with worms

Hemaphobia

Fear of blood

Hereiophobia

Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation

Herpetophobia

Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things

Heterophobia

Fear of the opposite sex

Hierophobia

Fear of priests or sacred things

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Fear of long words

Hobophobia

Fear of bums or beggars

Hodophobia

Fear of road travel

Homichlophobia

Fear of fog

Homilophobia

Fear of sermons

Homophobia

Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality, or becoming homosexual

Hoplophobia

Fear of firearms

Hormephobia

Fear of shock

Hyalophobia

Fear of glass

Hydrargyophobia

Fear of mercurial medicines

Hydrophobia

Fear of water

Hydrophobophobia

Fear of rabies

Hygrophobia

Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture

Hylephobia

Fear of materialism or epilepsy

Hypegiaphobia

Fear of responsibility

Hypnophobia

Fear of sleep or being hypnotized

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Iatrophobia

Fear of doctors or going to the doctor

Ichthyophobia

Fear of fish

Ideophobia

Fear of ideas

Illyngophobia

Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down

Insomnia

Fear of Inability to Sleep

Iophobia

Fear of poison

Isopterophobia

Fear of termites, insects that eat wood

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Japanophobia

Fear of Japanese

Judeophobia

Fear of Jewish People

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Kakorrhaphiophobia

Fear of failure or defeat

Kenophobia

Fear of voids or empty spaces

Kinesophobia

Fear of movement or motion

Koinoniphobia

Fear of rooms

Kolpophobia

Fear of genitals, particularly female

Kopophobia

Fear of fatigue

Kosmikophobia

Fear of cosmic phenomenon

Kyphophobia

Fear of stooping

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Lachanophobia

Fear of vegetables

Lalophobia

Fear of speaking

Lepraphobia

Fear of leprosy

Leukophobia

Fear of the colour white

Levophobia

Fear of things to the left side of the body

Ligyrophobia

Fear of loud noises

Lilapsophobia

Fear of tornado or hurricanes

Limnophobia

Fear of lakes

Linonophobia

Fear of string

Liticaphobia

Fear of lawsuits

Lockiophobia

Fear of childbirth

Logizomechanophobia

Fear of computers

Logophobia

Fear of words

Luiphobia

Fear syphilis

Lutraphobia

Fear of otters

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Macrophobia

Fear of long waits

Mageirocophobia

Fear of cooking

Malaxophobia

Fear of love play

Maniaphobia

Fear of insanity

Mastigophobia

Fear of punishment

Mechanophobia

Fear of machines

Medomalacuphobia

Fear of losing an erection

Medorthophobia

Fear of an erect penis

Megalophobia

Fear of large things

Melanophobia

Fear of the colour black

Melophobia

Fear of music

Meningitophobia

Fear of brain disease

Menophobia

Fear of menstruation

Merinthophobia

Fear of being bound or tied up

Metallophobia

Fear of metal

Metathesiophobia

Fear of changes

Meteorophobia

Fear of meteors

Metrophobia

Fear of poetry

Microbiophobia

Fear of microbes

Microphobia

Fear of small things

Misophobia

Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs

Mnemophobia

Fear of memories

Monopathophobia

Fear of definite disease

Motorphobia

Fear of automobiles

Mottephobia

Fear of moths

Murophobia

Fear of mice

Mycophobia

Fear of mushrooms

Myrmecophobia

Fear of ants

Mythophobia

Fear of myths, stories, or false statements

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Fear of -

Necrophobia

Fear of death or dead things

Neopharmaphobia

Fear of new drugs

Nephophobia

Fear of clouds

Noctiphobia

Fear of the night

Nomatophobia

Fear of names

Nosocomephobia

Fear of hospitals

Nosophobia

Fear of becoming ill

Nostophobia

Fear of returning home

Novercaphobia

Fear of your step-mother

Nucleomituphobia

Fear of nuclear weapons

Nudophobia

Fear of nudity or nakedness

Nyctohylophobia

Fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night

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Obesophobia

Fear of gaining weight

Ochlophobia

Fear of crowds or mobs

Ochophobia

Fear of vehicles

Octophobia

Fear of the figure 8

Odontophobia

Fear of teeth or dental surgery

Oenophobia

Fear of wines

Oikophobia

Fear of houses, home surroundings, or being in a house

Olfactophobia

Fear of smells

Ombrophobia

Fear of rain or of being rained on

Ommatophobia

Fear of eyes

Oneirogmophobia

Fear of wet dreams

Oneirophobia

Fear of dreams

Onomatophobia

Fear of hearing a certain word or of names

Ophidiophobia

Fear of snakes

Ophthalmophobia

Fear of being stared at

Opiophobia

Fear of medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients

Optophobia

Fear of opening one's eyes

Ornithophobia

Fear of birds

Orthophobia

Fear of property

Ostraconophobia

Fear of shellfish

Ouranophobia

Fear of heaven

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Pagophobia

Fear of ice or frost

Panophobia

Fear of everything

Panthophobia

Fear of suffering or disease

Papaphobia

Fear of the Pope

Papyrophobia

Fear of paper

Paralipophobia

Fear of neglecting duty or neglecting responsibility

Paraphobia

Fear of sexual perversion

Parasitophobia

Fear of parasites

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Fear of Friday the 13th

Parthenophobia

Fear of virgins or young girls

Pathophobia

Fear of disease

Patroiophobia

Fear of heredity

Peccatophobia

Fear of sinning

Pediculophobia

Fear of lice

Pediophobia

Fear of dolls

Pedophobia

Fear of children

Peladophobia

Fear of bald people

Pellagrophobia

Fear of pellagra

Peniaphobia

Fear of poverty

Pentheraphobia

Fear of mother-in-law

Phagophobia

Fear of swallowing or eating

Phalacrophobia

Fear of becoming bald

Pharmacophobia

Fear of taking medicine or drugs

Phengophobia

Fear of daylight or sunshine

Philemaphobia

Fear of kissing

Philophobia

Fear of falling in love or being in love

Philosophobia

Fear of philosophy

Phobophobia

Fear of phobias

Phonophobia

Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice, or telephones

Photoaugliaphobia

Fear of glaring lights

Photophobia

Fear of light

Phronemophobia

Fear of thinking

Phthisiophobia

Fear of tuberculosis

Placophobia

Fear of tombstones

Plutophobia

Fear of wealth

Pneumatiphobia

Fear of spirits

Pnigerophobia

Fear of choking or of being smothered

Pogonophobia

Fear of beards

Poliosophobia

Fear of contracting poliomyelitis

Politicophobia

Fear of politicians

Polyphobia

Fear of many things

Ponophobia

Fear of overworking or of pain

Porphyrophobia

Fear of the colour purple

Potamophobia

Fear of rivers or running water

Potophobia

Fear of alcohol

Proctophobia

Fear of rectums

Prosophobia

Fear of progress

Psellismophobia

Fear of stuttering

Psychophobia

Fear of the mind

Psychrophobia

Fear of the cold

Pteromerhanophobia

Fear of flying

Pteronophobia

Fear of being tickled by feathers

Pupaphobia

Fear of puppets

Pyrexiophobia

Fear of fever

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Radiophobia

Fear of radiation or x-rays

Ranidaphobia

Fear of frogs

Rectophobia

Fear of rectums or rectal diseases

Rhabdophobia

Fear of being severely punished, beaten by a rod, or severely criticized

Rhypophobia

Fear of defecation

Rhytiphobia

Fear of getting wrinkles

Rupophobia

Fear of dirt

Russophobia

Fear of Russians

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Samhainophobia

Fear of Halloween

Satanophobia

Fear of Satan or The Devil

Scabiophobia

Fear of scabies

Scelerophibia

Fear of bad men or burglars

Sciaphobia

Fear of shadows

Scoleciphobia

Fear of worms

Scolionophobia

Fear of school

Scopophobia

Fear of being seen or stared at

Scoptophobia

Fear of blindness in visual field

Scriptophobia

Fear of writing in public

Selachophobia

Fear of sharks

Selaphobia

Fear of light flashes

Selenophobia

Fear of the moon

Seplophobia

Fear of decaying matter

Siderodromophobia

Fear of trains, railroads, or train travel

Siderophobia

Fear of stars

Sinistrophobia

Fear of things to the left or left-handed

Sinophobia

Fear of China, Chinese, or Chinese culture

Sitiophobia

Fear of food or eating

Soceraphobia

Fear of parents-in-law

Social Phobia

Fear of social situations

Sociophobia

Fear of society or people in general

Somniphobia

Fear of sleep

Sophophobia

Fear of learning

Soteriophobia

Fear of dependence on others

Spacephobia

Fear of outer space

Spectrophobia

Fear of spectres or ghosts

Spheksophobia

Fear of wasps

Stasibasiphobia

Fear of standing or walking

Statue Phobia

Fear of statues or effigies

Staurophobia

Fear of crosses or the crucifix

Stenophobia

Fear of narrow things or places

Symbolophobia

Fear of symbolism

Symmetrophobia

Fear of symmetry

Syngenesophobia

Fear of relatives

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Tachophobia

Fear of speed

Taeniophobia

Fear of tapeworms

Taphephobia

Fear of being buried alive or cemeteries

Tapinophobia

Fear of being contagious

Taurophobia

Fear of bulls

Technophobia

Fear of technology or computers

Teleophobia

Fear of definite plans or Religious ceremony

Telephonophobia

Fear of telephones

Teratophobia

Fear of bearing a deformed child, monsters, or deformed people

Testophobia

Fear of taking tests

Tetanophobia

Fear of lockjaw or tetanus

Textophobia

Fear of certain fabrics

Thalassophobia

Fear of the sea or the ocean

Thanatophobia

Fear of death, dying, being buried, cremation, or entombment

Theatrophobia

Fear of theatres

Theologicophobia

Fear of theology

Theophobia

Fear of gods or religion

Thermophobia

Fear of heat

Tocophobia

Fear of pregnancy or childbirth

Tomophobia

Fear of surgery or surgical operations

Topophobia

Fear of fear of certain places or situations

Toxicophobia

Fear of poison or being accidentally poisoned

Traumatophobia

Fear of injury or battle

Tremophobia

Fear of trembling

Trichinophobia

Fear of trichinosis

Trichopathophobia

Fear of hair

Triskaidekaphobia

Fear of the number 13

Tropophobia

Fear of moving or making changes

Trypanophobia

Fear of injections

Tyrannophobia

Fear of tyrants

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Urophobia

Fear of urine or urinating

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Vaccinophobia

Fear of vaccination

Verminophobia

Fear of germs

Vestiphobia

Fear of clothing

Virginitiphobia

Fear of rape

Vitricophobia

Fear of step-fathers

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Walloonphobia

Fear of the Walloons

Wiccaphobia

Fear of witches & witchcraft

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Xanthophobia

Fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow

Xenoglossophobia

Fear of foreign languages

Xenophobia

Fear of strangers or foreigners

Xerophobia

Fear of dryness

Xylophobia

Fear of wood, wooden objects, or forests

Xyrophobia

Fear of razors

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Zelophobia

Fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia

Fear of the great mole rat

Zeusophobia

Fear of God or gods

Zoophobia

Fear of animals

 

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