Clinicians say they treat twice as many women as men for simple phobias, and there is anecdotal evidence that women's fears can develop into phobias after they have children.
Duchamp had only two phobias: flying in an airplane, and an "almost morbid horror of hair", according to his first wife.
Games have been used to train people to type, to overcome phobias, develop motor skills, teach problem solving, release tension and even exercise.
The aim is to entice customers to allow Burberry to record their buying history, shopping preferences and fashion phobias in a digital profile, which can be accessed by sales staff using hand-held tablets.
Apply stress, such as another alarming situation, and they will revert to their previous response, even if they have not felt a shock for months.Dr LeDoux reckons that the difficulty in overwriting established neural circuits is one reason why phobias are so difficult to cure.
Falling interest rates provided a tailwind to deficit reduction in all countries through the 1980s and 1990s as inflation phobias accumulated over prior decades seeped away.
They are, they say, overcoming the phobias they acquired in the 40 Franco years, when a dictatorial regime claimed a monopoly on religious truth and denigrated the country's Jewish and Muslim traditions, insisting that the only real Spain was "one, Catholic and united".
Though it will be a long time before they are as laid-back about GM foods as Americans are, Europe's nervous consumers may increasingly be forced to choose between their phobias and their wallets.
The government's phobias appear to have clouded its vision.
He has stayed loyal to his rigorous work habits, exotic phobias, piquant neuroses, distinctive Brooklyn accent and the clarinet he faithfully plays in a New Orleans-style jazz band on Monday nights in Manhattan.
