Stephanie Racine
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of ninety-nine obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they ar also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich...