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fear of intimacy
Fear of intimacy is generally a social phobia and anxiety disorder resulting in difficulty forming close relationships with another person. The term can also refer to a scale on a psychometric test, or a type of adult in attachment theory psychology.
The fear of intimacy is the fear of being emotionally and/or physically close to another individual. This fear is also defined as “the inhibited capacity of an individual, because of anxiety, to exchange thought and feelings of personal significance with another individual who is highly valued”.〔Descutner, Carol J., Thelen, Mark H. “Development and Validation of a Fear-of-Intimacy Scale”. P 219〕 Fear of intimacy is the expression of existential views in that to love and to be loved makes life seem precious and death more inevitable.〔Firestone, Robert W. and Catlett, Joyce. Fear of Intimacy. p. 5〕 It often results from past traumas such as rape or childhood sexual abuse. Fear of intimacy is also related to the fear of being touched.
== Symptoms ==
People with this fear are anxious about or afraid of intimate relationships. They believe that they do not deserve love or support from others.〔Kim Bartholomew. “Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective.” P. 147〕 Fear of intimacy has three defining features: content which represents the ability to communicate personal information, emotional valence which refers to the feelings about personal information exchanged, and vulnerability signifying their regard for the person they are intimate with.〔 Bartholomew and Horowitz go further and determine four different adult attachment types: “(1) Secure individuals have a sense of worthiness or lovability and are comfortable with intimacy and autonomy; (2) preoccupied persons lack this sense of self-worthiness yet view others positively and seek their love and acceptance; (3) fearful people lack a sense of lovability and are avoidant of others in anticipation of rejection; (4) dismissing persons feel worthy of love yet detach from others whom they generally regard as untrustworthy”.〔Bartholomew, K., & Horowitz, L. M. “Attachment style among young adults: A test of a four-category model”〕
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