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A History of Obsession
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Kate Summerscale
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From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness”
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).
Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and riveting case studies to trace the origins of our obsessions, unearthing a history of human strangeness, from the middle ages to the present day, and a wealth of explanations for some of our most powerful aversions and desires.
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Falling into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. Beautifully written, deeply felt, Falling into the Fire brings us inside the doctor’s mind, illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatment. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Buy this book! and READ it
- De joyce en 08-15-13
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
- Memoir of a Borderline Personality
- De: Merri Lisa Johnson
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Chaotic, disturbing, meaningless
- De BRB en 04-02-14
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,750
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,039
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,006
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon 34 more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-19th-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome - a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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The Worm at the Core
- On the Role of Death in Life
- De: Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
More than 100 years ago, the American philosopher William James wrote that the knowledge that we must die is "the worm at the core" of the human condition - a universally shared fear that informs all our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skeptical at first, but they won me over.
- De Tory Giddens en 06-07-20
De: Jeff Greenberg, y otros
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Sybil Exposed
- The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
- De: Debbie Nathan
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No definitive answer, just speculations all around
- De Amy A en 12-30-18
De: Debbie Nathan
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The Pain Chronicles
- Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
- De: Melanie Thernstrom
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative, well researched and nicely written
- De Nathan O'Hara en 08-21-10
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Capture
- Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
- De: David A. Kessler MD
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wish we did not? For decades, New York Times best-selling author Dr. David A. Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon - capture - is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confused
- De TS en 05-17-16
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This Close to Happy
- A Reckoning with Depression
- De: Daphne Merkin
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I should be the last person to recommend this book
- De Mariaposa en 03-04-17
De: Daphne Merkin
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- De: Olivia Laing
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration!!!!!! Great story about 20 Century make writer who suffer with alcoholism. If you like this topic and want more
- De Pamela Abbey en 04-25-21
De: Olivia Laing
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The Gift of Adversity
- The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections
- De: Norman E. Rosenthal M.D.
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
The noted research psychiatrist explores how life's disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become better, bigger, and more resilient human beings. Adversity is an irreducible fact of life. Although we can and should learn from all experiences, both positive and negative best-selling author Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal believes that adversity is by far the best teacher most of us will ever encounter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book ruined by the narrator
- De David C. en 12-07-22
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 393
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 356
In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims - who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Scary, and still unsolved, medical mystery
- De joyce en 12-14-14
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The Body Keeps the Score
- Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- De: Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11,862
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,979
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9,888
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Overall Worthwhile, Lingers Too Long in the Why
- De LittleBeadsOfMercury en 04-07-21
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My Life Among the Serial Killers
- Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
- De: Helen Morrison M.D., Harold Goldberg
- Narrado por: Helen Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 447
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 183
Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring reader,boring writing
- De P. Minor en 02-03-08
De: Helen Morrison M.D., y otros
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Rabid
- A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
- De: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,395
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2,076
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,081
The most fatal virus known to science, rabies kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected and Intriguing
- De Cynthia en 06-09-13
De: Bill Wasik, y otros
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- De: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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Surviving Survival
- De: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath. The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written, compelling and honest to the end
- De Mark en 07-21-14
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I Don't Want to Talk About It
- Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
- De: Terrence Real
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 934
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 787
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 780
Psychotherapist Terrence Real offers an important and compelling look at the silent epidemic of depression among men and shows, with compassion and clarity, what can be done to break this vicious cycle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dated, Freudian take on subject with shock value
- De Matthew&Rebecca en 04-28-12
De: Terrence Real
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- Christine
- 12-27-22
Excellent!
Whether you suffer from a phobia or mania or not, this book will provide you with both entertainment and information. The author does not just list these afflictions, but she examines closely the ones that affect the most people as well as some of the stranger ones. You will find information—including a history of the term, statistics, cultural differences, and relevant case studies on hoarding, fear of the number 4, hair plucking, and a fear of being buried alive, to name just a few. The performance is very well done. I enthusiastically recommend!
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