Citations:amaxophobia

English citations of amaxophobia

• 1907, Henry Meige, Eugène Clement Louis Feindel, Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, Tics and Their Treatment, page 83:

  A conflagration may determine fear of fire, or a carriage accident amaxophobia.

• 1908, Charles Hamilton Hughes, The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 29, page 65:

  I have known of at least two well marked instances of amaxophobia originating in the fright of being run away with and the effect of the shock abiding with them throughout the after life […]

• 1922, Haydn Brown, Advanced Suggestion: (neuroinduction), page 59:

  In amaxophobia the patient is comparatively happy in a corridor compartment, where he can get to other people if afraid.

• 2003, Carol Anne O'Marie, The Corporal Works of Murder, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, 102:

  "Great," she said just loud enough for Mary Helen to hear, "not only are we driving Miss Daisy, but we are driving Miss Daisy with amaxophobia!" ¶ It took Mary Helen a moment to remember that amaxophobia was what experts called a fear of driving.

• 2004, Zak B. Tjewels, From the Depths of Heaven: Serious Pink and Satin Yellow, →ISBN, page 50:

  As a lower exec, Hogtroff would obviously not have been exposed to selective phobia processing, and it was unlikely that he had natural amaxophobia, but it was just the case that he would just never ever think of allowing himself the discomfort of a people-mover, even in the daylight when it was relatively safe.

• 2010, Carrie Jones, Need, →ISBN:

  Amaxophobia! This is a fear I've never had. Until now. “I am amaxophobic!” I announce to the steering wheel. I half hug it to make the point.

• 2013, Jef R. Huntsman, Heart Attack, yak, yak: Life, Laughter, and My Cardiac Arrest, Xlibris, →ISBN (hardback), →ISBN (paperback), →ISBN (e-book), chapter 14, 125:

  I felt a little better about driving after knowing it was a real fear, called amaxophobia.