The Invention of Agoraphobia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Trotter (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 463-474 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150304000609 |
| OpenAlex | W2129094954 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
T HE LAST THREE DECADES of the nineteenth century were phobia's belle époque . During this first phase of investigation there was, it must have seemed, no species of terror, however febrile, which could not talk its way immediately into syndrome status. In 1896, in his Psychology of the Emotions , Théodule Ribot spoke of psychiatry's inundation by a “veritable deluge” of complaints ranging from the relatively commonplace and self-explanatory, such as claustrophobia, to the downright idiosyncratic, such as triakaidekaphobia, or fear of the number 13 (213). Twenty years later, in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis , Sigmund Freud was to respond with similar impatience to the list of phobias drawn up by the American psychologist Stanley Hall. Hall had managed to find 132 (446)
Agoraphobia · Anxiety · Panic · Phobias · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |