Citations:phobophobia

English citations of phobophobia

1980, Walter Laqueur, The political psychology of appeasement, →ISBN, page 80:
[A]part from some memorable phrases in the Roosevelt tradition concerning the danger of phobophobia ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"), it is difficult to think of any major contribution by its statesmen or politicians.
2004, Ingeborg Lauterstein, Shoreland, →ISBN, page 372:
No psychiatrist has ever helped him trace it all back to the phobophobia — fear of fear — of a brave little wounded boy. The ultimate.
2010, Peter Spinogatti, Explaining Unhappiness: Dissolving the Paradox, →ISBN, page 114:
There is really not much to learn from phobophobia, because it's not the fear of being afraid that presents a problem […]
2014, Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Risk
In particular, the rulemakers – here judges who craft free speech doctrine – may themselves display a pathological fear of succumbing to pathological fear, a kind of phobophobia.