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Clinical descriptions of phobias, along with the obsessional behaviors frequently accompanying them, appear in earliest medical writings, dating at least from the time of Hippocrates. Marks (1969), in his insightful book on phobias, details the clinical descriptions and treatment recommendations proposed since the early Greeks. Ten years later, Graziano, DeGiovanni, and Garcia (1979), in an extensive review of the behavioral treatment of children’s fears, called for research that more clearly recognized their complexity. Because of their vividness, their often sudden onset, their debilitation, and their frequentness in the population of otherwise normal persons, phobias have attracted broad attention both in the clinical and the experimental psychopathology areas of psychology.
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Kennedy, W.A. (1983). Obsessive-Compulsive and Phobic Reactions. In: Ollendick, T.H., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Child Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7136-0_11
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