Fear of fish
Template:Short description Template:Infobox medical condition Fear of fish or ichthyophobia ranges from cultural phenomena such as fear of eating fish, fear of touching raw fish, or fear of dead fish, up to irrational fear (specific phobia). Selachophobia, or galeophobia, is the specific fear of sharks.[1]
Etymology
The term ichthyophobia comes from the Greek ἰχθῦς - ichthus, meaning "fish"[2] and φόβος - phobos, "fear".[3] Galeophobia comes from the Greek γαλεός - galeos, "small shark".[4][1]
Phobia
Ichthyophobia is described in Psychology: An International Perspective as an "unusual" specific phobia.[5] Both symptoms and remedies of ichthyophobia are common to most specific phobias.
American psychologist John B. Watson, a renowned name in behaviorism, describes an example, quoted in many books in psychology, of conditioned fear of a goldfish in an infant and a way of unconditioning of the fear by what is now called graduated exposure therapy:[6] Template:Quote
In contrast, radical exposure therapy was used successfully to cure a man with a "life affecting" fish phobia on the 2007 documentary series, The Panic Room.[7]
Cultural phenomenon
Historically, the Navajo people were described as being ichthyophobic,[8][9] due to their aversion to fish. However, this was later recognised as a cultural or mythic aversion to aquatic animals,[10] and not a psychological condition.
Fear of eating fish
The Journal of the American Medical Association have published a research paper[11] addressing the fears of eating fish[12] among those who are concerned about contaminants, such as mercury, becoming accumulated in their food.
See also
References
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- ↑ a b Galeophobia Template:Webarchive in medical dictionary.
- ↑ ἰχθῦς, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ↑ φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ↑ γαλεός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ↑ Michael W. Eysenck. Psychology: An International Perspective, Psychology Press, 2004, p839, Template:ISBN
- ↑ John B. Watson (1929) "Behaviorism - The Modern Note in Psychology"
- ↑ Tryst Williams. Man cured of 'life affecting' fish phobia. Western Mail, 18 April 2007
- ↑ Washington Matthews. Ichthyophobia, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 11, No. 41 (1898), pp. 105-112
- ↑ William H. Lyon. The Navajos in the American Historical Imagination, 1868-1900, Ethnohistory, Vol. 45, No. 2 (1998), pp. 237-275
- ↑ Howard M. Bahr. The Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans, 1898-1921: A Sourcebook. Scarecrow Press, 2004, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Dariush Mozaffarian, Eric B. Rimm, "Fish Intake, Contaminants, and Human Health. Evaluating the Risks and the Benefits", Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006, vol. 296, pp 1885-1899.
- "New Study Shows the Benefits of Eating Fish Greatly Outweigh the Risks" - an overview of the publication by Mozaffarian and Rimm in a press release by the Harvard School of Public Health
- ↑ "Time-Tested Guidelines for Eating Seafood" Template:Webarchive, a presentation by Jane Brody (Personal Health Columnist, The New York Times) at the 2005 Seafood & Health Conference, where she coined her own term for fear of fish: pescaphobia, from Latin for "fish"
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