Phobia

by Ivan Ward

Using everyday experience, horror stories, Hitchcock's cinema, and the cultural history of racism, Phobia illuminates the individual and social nightmare world of phobic phenomena.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

91 pages

First published March 18, 1997

About the author

Ivan Ward is the Director of Education at the Freud Museum, London, the series editor of 'Ideas in Psychoanalysis' and author of 'Phobia' and 'Introducing Psychoanalysis'.

Reviews

[Niousha mokhtari · Rating 5 out of 5]

ترجمه خیلی مشکل داشت/ بهتر بود مترجم برای برخی واژه ها حتماً در پاورقی معادل را بیاورد.

[khashayar · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting book on phobia and gives you a smattering of some ideas in psychoanalysis. You'd be exposed to new looks, new ways of thought, but all the material looks like a hodgepodge and is vaguely presented. You can hardly get the whole picture till you come to the end of the book, where conclusions are made and you begin to understand (or so you believe!) and you would have a picture of what is going on and who is who.

[Lisa Kucharski · Rating 3 out of 5]

A slippery description of a psychological state that rarely makes sense in the first place. But, there are some really insightful moments in the writing. The guy is Freud-centric in his views, and he brings up areas that Jung talked about but he never names him as a source.

The nice thing is the book is short and tries to pack a lot in, and does try to provide familiar works of fiction as examples.

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much anxiety. Too much repression. How can people declare they are mentally healthy... :-)