Categories of Specific Phobias
According to the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, phobias can be classified under the following general categories:
- Animal type – Fear of dogs, cats, rats and/or mice, pigs, cows, birds, spiders, or snakes.
- Natural environment type – Fear of heights (acrophobia), lightning and thunderstorms (astraphobia), or aging (gerascophobia).
- Situational type – Fear of small confined spaces (claustrophobia), or the dark (nyctophobia).
- Blood/injection/injury type – Fear of medical procedures, including needles and injections (Trypanophobia).
- Other – Fear of the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia), or clowns (coulrophobia).
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