内容简介
"提到恐惧症，你会想到什么？深海恐惧症、社交恐惧症、密集恐惧症、幽闭恐惧症……这些都太常见了吧！你听说过被笑恐惧症、呕吐恐惧症、睡眠恐惧症、纽扣恐惧症、鸡蛋恐惧症、胡须恐惧症、爆米花恐惧症吗？对了，还有那些千奇百怪的躁狂症！计算癖、被爱妄想症、慕男狂、小体妄想症、狂笑症、书写癖、剔甲癖、豪富妄想症……
《千奇百怪的恐惧与狂热》中收录的各种各样的恐惧与狂热一定会让你大开眼界，书中详细描写了99个恐惧症和狂热症的故事，有的病症我们十分熟悉，有的则很罕见。恐惧症和狂热症是我们这个时代最常见的焦虑症之一，也是我们回溯过去的一条线索。获奖作家凯特·萨默斯凯尔（Kate Summerscale）使用丰富而引人入胜的案例研究来追踪这些病症的根源，为人们揭示出它们是如何塑造了我们，并为我们最强烈的厌恶和欲望作了详细解答。"
作者简介
"凯特·萨默斯凯尔（Kate Summerscale）
前英国《每日电讯报》文学编辑，英国第一畅销书《威彻尔先生的猜疑》的作者，该书被翻译成十多种语言，并荣获塞缪尔·约翰逊奖和英国银河图书奖。
她的第一本书《鲸鱼礁女王》获得了1998年的毛姆文学奖，并被列入了惠特布瑞德传记奖的入围名单。
《坏男孩》凭借最佳事实犯罪获得了埃德加·爱伦·坡奖。
《阿尔玛·菲尔丁的鬼魂》凭借非小说入围贝利·吉福德非虚构写作奖。"
Content introduction
"When you think of phobias, what comes to mind? Bathophobia, social phobia, trypophobia, claustrophobia... These are all too common! Have you heard of fear of laughter, fear of emetophobia, fear of sleep, fear of buttons, fear of eggs, fear of beards, fear of popcorn? Oh, and all that weird mania! Numeracy, delusion of being loved, Nymphomania, paranoia of small bodies, guffaelia, writing mania, nail picking mania, delusion of wealth...
The wide variety of fears and fanaticisms is sure to be eye-opening, detailing 99 stories of phobias and fanaticisms, from the very familiar to the very rare. Phobias and fanaticism are among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, and a clue to our past. Award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and engaging case studies to trace the roots of these disorders, revealing how they shape us and providing detailed answers to our strongest repulsions and desires.
About the author
"Kate Summerscale"
Former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and author of the UK's number one bestseller, Mr Witchell's Suspicions, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Galaxy British Book Award.
Her first book, The Queen of Whale Reef, won the 1998 Maugham Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Biography.
Bad Boys won the Edgar Allan POE Award for Best factual crime.
Alma Fielding's Ghost was shortlisted for the Bailey Gifford Award for Non-fiction Writing.
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