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Blogs Liberty and Power Phobias—Why We Should Reject This Idiom

May 24, 2007

Phobias—Why We Should Reject This Idiom

by Liberty and Power

Frank Furedi provides five reasons why we should reject the language of phobias. Worth reading. Furedi's arguments struck me as Szaszian, even though Furedi does not mention Thomas Szasz.