Spectrophobia
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Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, "image") or eisoptrophobia is a kind of specific phobia involving a morbid fear of mirrors and the dread of seeing one's own reflection. [1]
Psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi attributed it in one case to two main causes: fear of self-knowledge and flight from exhibitionism[2]
The term is also sometimes used[who?] interchangeably with phasmophobia, or the fear of ghosts.
[edit] References
- ^ "The Dictionary of Psychology", by Raymond J. Corsini, 2002, ISBN 1583913289p. 319
- ^ "Further Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psychoanalysis", by Sandor Ferenczi (1927) p. 1915
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