Fear of contact

The term fear of contact describes a phobia of physical contact . Which includes:

Aphephosmophobia - The fear of being touched by other living beings
Chiraptophobia , haphephobia, or haptophobia - the fear of being touched or of touching others yourself.

The fear of touch can show up as a fear of being touched or as sheer discomfort with normal touching. Sigmund Freud classified fear of contact in the field of neuroses and mentioned it in his lecture "Human Sexual Life". Freud viewed the fear of contact as a possible consequence of unfulfilled sexual needs.

Differentiation from other diseases

Fears of contact are widespread in our society and can relate to objects as well as other people or animals (for example arachnophobia - fear of spiders).

Fear of contact and discomfort when touched does not have to be an independent phobia, but can occur in the context of another psychological or physical illness. For example, it is described as a symptom of migraines and neuropathic pain syndromes.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Carl Dahlöf: Cutaneous allodynia and migraine: Another view . In: Current Pain and Headache Reports . tape 10 , no. 3 , June 1, 2006, ISSN 1531-3433 , p. 231–238 , doi : 10.1007 / s11916-006-0051-x ( springer.com [accessed August 7, 2017]).
^ Lectures for an introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - text in the Gutenberg project. Retrieved on May 19, 2020 (German).
↑ Jule Frettlöh, Christoph Maier, Andreas Schwarzer: Neuropathic pain syndromes with special consideration of phantom pain and CRPS . In: Pain Psychotherapy . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 509-537 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-12783-0_28 ( springer.com [accessed August 7, 2017]).

Web links

Wiktionary: fear of contact - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

[:0-1] Carl Dahlöf: Cutaneous allodynia and migraine: Another view . In: Current Pain and Headache Reports . tape 10 , no. 3 , June 1, 2006, ISSN 1531-3433 , p. 231–238 , doi : 10.1007 / s11916-006-0051-x ( springer.com [accessed August 7, 2017]).

[2] Lectures for an introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - text in the Gutenberg project. Retrieved on May 19, 2020 (German).

[3] Jule Frettlöh, Christoph Maier, Andreas Schwarzer: Neuropathic pain syndromes with special consideration of phantom pain and CRPS . In: Pain Psychotherapy . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 509-537 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-12783-0_28 ( springer.com [accessed August 7, 2017]).