According to the World-wide Organization of the Health (the WHO), at world-wide level, 4% of the population of men suffer some phobia, whereas in the women this number reaches to 6%. Nevertheless, in a sample that the Institute recently realised in Investigation of Clinical and Social Psychology, almost 60% confessed to have some type of phobia. This investigation contemplated to students of degree and posgrado, as well as to patients who go to the clinic of the organism, that includes at all the socioeconomic levels.
Also it was demonstrated that the most common phobias have relation to reptiles, insects and rodents, as well as to situations associated with the height, the death and to locked up places; however, in Mexico the indices of people have risen who them aterra everything what has to do with the public insecurity and diseases, this associate to tanatofobia or phobia to the death.
Doctor Jose de Jesus González Núñez, honorary president of the IIPCS, commented that the phobias, almost as a rule, are originated in the childhood: “Having an irrational fear to something, always is related by some traumatic event that took place in the childhood. Of that way when this fear is experienced for the first time, triggered by a fact in particular, it will move it to the inconciente to some object, animal, or situation that will symbolize the fear encapsulation to such traumatic event”.
In this sense, Doctor Adriana González Padilla, psychotherapist and director of the Degree of the IIPCS, explained that the origin of the phobias they can have the same nucleus: the edípico period, that is to say, of the three to the five years of age. “Each mind assimilates the reality of different way; for example, if a boy saw his father striking to his mother, thus most probable it is than instead of to hate or to fear his father, he will move these feelings in particular to an object, which will be in a phobia.”
“In this sense, the women are more susceptible to suffer more phobias than the men: reason, because still we lived in a society where to the woman, from children, it instills majors to them fears and are subject to majors aggressions in I have dinner familiar”, explained.
That way, both specialists commented that although the most frequent phobias are related to the insects, the reptiles, or situations as the confinement or the heights, can have irrational fears to practically any object, since will depend on the displacement that the person does who suffers the phobia.
She is possible to indicate that a phobia is defined as the irrational fear to an object, animal, situation or even person, who paralyzes to the person afflicts who it: “A thing is to have a rational fear to something, like for example to the death, the public insecurity, which is completely normal, to that to undergo terror, where the use of the common sense is not applied, because this fear is completely unmanageable. However, we have noticed that many people have begun to develop to phobias to the delinquency or the diseases, because from the childhood east fear is obstinate to them or were victims of aggressions”, maintained González Padilla.
Finally, González Núñez emphasized that the treatment of a phobia can be carried out by means of two psychological techniques, depending each on the clinical file of each subject: “A phobia can encapsulate manifolds psychological problems reason why it is necessary, in first instance to determine the origin of the same. A technique, the psychoanalytic one, crumbles the childhood with the purpose of to find the events traumatic that they derived in that irrational fear, and in second instance, focuses in facing the object that produces the phobia of gradual way, in order that the subject at issue extends its fear”.