The reader should be able to understand the differences between anxiety, fear and phobia.
Objectives
GDC development outcome A, C and D
First of all, we need to distinguish exactly what a phobia is and what it isn’t. When I undertook my Hypnosis Applied to Dentistry Post Graduate Diploma training at University College London (2006), the definitions of anxiety, fear and phobia came from the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders 4th edition’ (DSM4), published by the American Psychiatric Association.
The original definitions of anxiety, fear and phobia according to the DSM4 is: ‘Anxiety is a reaction to an “unknown, ill defined or not immediately present danger”.'
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