"intractable fear" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means an unmanageable or stubborn fear that is difficult to control or overcome. Example: Sarah's intractable fear of spiders prevented her from taking a job at the nature center, even though it was her dream job.
Poems inspired by the underworld of myth confront our most intractable fears.
In recent years, hypnosis has been used to manage otherwise intractable pain or fear of pain in the dentist's chair, and as an aide in psychotherapy.
It offers information, advice on nutrition, relaxation classes and a psychologist for anyone needing to talk about the most intractable subjects (depression, fear of dying, dread of cancer returning and other issues not easy to address in a hospital environment).
The real and intractable object of that fear is new in history but now all too familiar: the development of devastatingly effective tactics of asymmetric warfare, including rocket attacks and suicide bombing, tactics that gradually drain the target of vitality and eventually kill it, all the while making a joke of its nuclear deterrent and its armies.
The intractable nature of the fear response to trauma reminders in PTSD is often cited as a hallmark of the disorder, involving a unique difficulty for PTSD sufferers to habituate, or adapt to, such reminders.
One of the more pervasive but intractable problems is 'technophobia' or fear of technology due to the lack of e-security.
In an effort to address some of the more intractable issues related to explaining specific fears, Armfield has proposed a model of the etiology of fear which positions cognitions, rather than experiences, as the central element in fear acquisition and expression [ 26].
This is a 'baby and bathwater' problem which may prove soluble; I hope it will, but fear it may be intractable.
ATHENS — Worries about Greece's intractable debt problem deepened on Monday, stoking fears that the country remains on a path to fiscal disaster and that European leaders do not have a convincing plan to prevent a default.
The running protests now have the makings of the intractable street rebellion that every French prime minister fears.On the face of it, this is a single-issue protest against the first job contract for under 26-year-olds, known as the CPE.
