ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses some of the specific phobias which beset many people. He presents a typical case, detailing its treatment and endeavoring to make clear the factors in its causation and development. A woman of thirty-three was unable, unless accompanied, to cross a wide street or to remain in a church or theater without an intense emotional disturbance, showing itself as palpitation, facial pallor, chilliness, moisture and cyanosis of the extremities, rigidity and pain in the neck and back, nausea, the sensation of great weakness and dizziness. She had always had a fear of high places, but had thought nothing of it, as every one else in her family felt the same way. She had never feared the dark, she had no social timidities, and had enjoyed school and college life. She had never feared the dark, she had no social timidities, and had enjoyed school and college life.
