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The book of phobias & manias a history of obsession

"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)"--

Main Author:	Summerscale, Kate, 1965- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2022]
Subjects:	Phobias. Mania. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychoanalysis.

Summary:	"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)"--
Physical Description:	239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-239) and indexes.
ISBN:	9780593489758 0593489756
Author Notes:	Kate Summerscale , formerly the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph (London), is the author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher , a number one bestseller in the UK, which was translated into more than a dozen languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her first book, The Queen of Whale Cay , won a Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Award, The Wicked Boy won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and The Haunting of Alma Fielding was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Summerscale lives in London.

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