ABSTRACT
In this part of the book I wish to compare what I have presented so far to what other authors have had to say about various types of phobia. I shall start with agoraphobia, because of its clinical and theoretical relevance. Then I turn to the role of a companion, which I would call an external directing object and which I first mentioned in papers on agoraphobia in various different theoretical contexts. I shall then discuss claustrophobia, animal phobia, school phobia, acrophobia, and cardiac neurosis.
