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From arachnophobia (spiders) and bibliomania (books) to nomophobia (mobile phones) and trypophobia (small holes), our phobias and manias are contradictory and multiple: intimate, yet forged by the times we live in - the commonest form of anxiety disorder, but rarely given a formal diagnosis. Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political. 'Fascinating ...