The Core Therapy for Philophobia
To address the causes of philophobia.
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right from the comfort of your own home!
Treat the cause, not just the symptoms!
Do you feel restricted or burdened by philophobia?
Then this therapy is perfect for you!
With our in-depth core therapy for philophobia, delivered as a self-help course, we offer you an opportunity to resolve the underlying fears and cognitions (beliefs). This unique therapy for philophobia addresses the underlying causes and thus provides a profound solution.
Here's what you'll learn
Treatment of philophobia
You will learn to identify and thoroughly address (resolve) the underlying causes of your philophobia. You can do this on your own, from the comfort of your own home.
Treatment of the underlying cause
The key to success is addressing the root causes. If we spent as much time addressing the root causes as we do on treating the symptoms, the problem would have been solved long ago.
The Philophobia Core Therapy is tailored to your needs
You only resolve the issues that you truly carry within you.
Thoroughly resolve fears and cognitive patterns
Thorough resolution has many benefits, but once a fear has been thoroughly resolved, it no longer weighs on you. The associated negative cognition or belief is also resolved. There is no need for further repetitions.
Philophobia Therapy
Course of Treatment
During the session, you’ll lie back and relax while the therapist in our app guides you through the process, allowing you to participate in a comfortable setting. We focus solely on the present and leave the past behind. There are no confrontations with fears.
Course Content
Therapy is not about addressing, combating, or coping with the effects, but about properly and thoroughly resolving the underlying causes. Only this can provide a genuine, lasting, and satisfactory solution. When the process is thorough, symptoms—such as blockages—will also disappear.
With our therapy, we aim to help you stop merely fighting the symptoms and instead tackle the root cause of the problem. This is the only way to find a solution for you that will be effective in the long term.
A wide range of options for various fears
We’ve kept the philophobia course simple and have already taken into account the inner psychological dynamics, thereby breaking down and summarizing the causes. This allows us to offer a comprehensive course that covers typical fears associated with philophobia as well as those related to related topics.
Coming to terms with philophobia is a daunting task, but one that is well worth the effort.
“The unconscious plays an enormous role in our actions, while reason plays a very small one.” Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French physician and sociologist, founder of mass psychology
Overcoming Philophobia
Requirements
– Smartphone running iOS or Android
—No experience, prior knowledge, or similar required
Support
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Only €28.99!
The price consists of the course fee (€9) and the required Resolve Anxiety app (€19.99) (All prices include VAT).
Here’s what’s included:
- Therapy as a PDF for printing or reading digitally
- Unlimited lifetime access
- Resolve Anxiety App (also includes unlimited lifetime access)
- Language: English
You can purchase the required app here in the Apple™ App Store and in the Google™ Play Store (€19):
Treating Philophobia
Digital Therapy
All you need is our course and our "Overcoming Fear" app, and you're ready to get started.
You'll also receive 14 days of email support from us.
Will this treatment work for me?
Yes, the therapy works with unavoidable reactions.
However, it is possible that our course does not cover all the elements that are relevant to you. We cannot promise that this will be the case, but it is highly unlikely for various reasons. If this happens, please contact us.
Why am I afraid of love?
Anxiety disorders usually originate in early childhood, between birth and age four. During this time, traumatic or overwhelming situations may have occurred in which certain emotions (fears, shame, grief, anger, etc.) could not be processed and therefore had to be split off into the unconscious or repressed. The main effects of such repressed fears are usually blockages. In other words, the person becomes blocked precisely when confronted with the source of their fear. Such fears are pathogenic (pathological) and should be treated.
Treating Philophobia
Do I have philophobia?
Take our philophobia test. It’s free, quick, and effective. Afterward, you’ll know for sure. If the results indicate you have philophobia, you can start therapy.
Question: I want to overcome my fear of philosophy. Is this the right place for me?
Yes. However, when we say “overcome,” we usually mean coping with the symptoms. Here, though, we want to address—or rather, resolve—the real causes, the root of philophobia.
Resolve Anxiety
Effective fear treatment in an app!
Effective content and techniques for treating fears/anxiety.
Thoroughly dissolve any fear, including the associated negative cognition/belief!
No direct confrontation (exposure) with the fear!
Also deals with individual cognitions and all other emotions such as shame, sadness, hate, anger, etc.
For all questions ...
... please do not hesitate to contact us. Whether it's a question of understanding, product details or questions about treatment.
We are happy to help!
Ursachenbehandlung
For a thorough treatment and lasting results, we address the root causes rather than the symptoms.
Keine direkte Konfrontation
None of these methods involve direct confrontation. There’s no need to be afraid of the treatment!
And: No trip down memory lane! We're staying in the here and now.
Individueller Kurs
A personalized course, tailored just for you!
2x Gründlich
Every single fear (and every emotion and thought) is completely resolved. The associated thought is also addressed.
“The highest happiness of man is liberation from fear.”
Walther Rathenau, (1867 - 1922), Politician, writer, industrialist 1922
The Philophobia Test
Fast and effective!
Free app
Note:
If you're not sure whether you might be affected by philophobia, you now have the opportunity to find out. Our test screens for a few common causes of philophobia.
Start the test by clicking the blue circle at the bottom right of the screen. This will open the fear test. This easily becomes the philophobia test: Take the first fear from the list below and enter it exactly as it is into the fear test. If you do not feel that fear, take the next fear from the list and test yourself with it. Repeat this with each fear so that by the end, you have tested yourself with every fear on the list. As soon as you find a fear within yourself, congratulations—you now have confirmation that you have philophobia. The first major step toward healing has been taken.
In that case, we recommend our core therapy for philophobia to address the root of the problem.
Fears
the fear of love
the fear of intimacy
the fear of independence
the fear of getting involved
the fear of rejection
the fear of rejection
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Information on Philophobia
Definition
Definition of Philophobia
What could be more beautiful than love—deep, true love? The mystery of humanity, the highest emotion, the one that can transform everything. Yet some people are afraid of love. This is philophobia (Latin: philo = love, phobos (φοβος) = fear), and it is curable.
But it is not simply a fear of love; it is a panic-stricken fear of falling in love or even of loving. But why can something so beautiful also be frightening?
Once your heart is given to another, there is no turning back; you open yourself up to them and let yourself be completely carried away by your feelings. While this openness is beautiful, something can always get in the way. There is no control or certainty over that. And if something happens, it can start to really hurt. And that is exactly what happens to those affected, usually during childhood.
When you get hurt, you usually take some time off and heal, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. After the rain comes sunshine, and a new partner with whom you open yourself up again. Philophobes, however, cannot do exactly that because the fear of falling in love is too strong, or the ability to open up is blocked. As a defense against this, these situations are avoided from the start. This is more than just disruptive; it is life-threatening.
There can be various triggers
When the heart is involved, the fall is long. To commit, you have to adapt, make compromises, be considerate, hold back, and so on. Especially after the initial rush of love, after the first few months, when those intense initial feelings of love start to fade, this can become uncomfortable for some people. You have to get involved, open up, and show who you really are, with all your strengths and weaknesses. Conflicts, arguments, and disagreements are always part of the picture, too. Normally, however, all these things are gladly accepted in the intoxication of new love. Thus, love is also a motivator for personal development and growth. But for some, that’s where it ends, because the fear of love is so strong that it blocks them and prevents anything further. Even if it is irrational. Unfortunately, they will never experience how love transforms everything.
These triggers come a little earlier for some phobics, a little later for others, but as soon as things get a little deeper, the blockage sets in and it ends, no matter how beautiful or right it was. The end result of this avoidance is that those affected simply move from one person to the next in short, “safe” intervals, from one affair to the next, without ever being able to truly commit deeply to anyone.
Symptoms
Symptoms of Philophobia
In cases of severe phobias or fears, the primary effects are mental blocks. These are linked to power and control and cannot be overcome through rational “thinking it through,” analyzing, recognizing, or similar approaches. This is true even when the phobia centers on objects or things that are actually absurd, such as the fear of love. Since these fears are usually repressed or split off and are, by their very nature, unconscious—that is, excluded from one’s experiential world—philophobes often feel helpless and frequently blame themselves for this irrational behavior. They do not see where these blockages come from, if they even notice them at all. This often results in a sense of injustice accompanied by self-accusation, as well as a form of self-aggression. However, the reactions can also swing in the opposite direction, and those affected may experience sadness, helplessness, resentment, and humiliation.
Symptoms vary greatly from person to person. As with other phobias, there are both emotional and physical reactions. As with all phobias, in addition to persistent, excessive, or irrational fear, the following symptoms also occur:
• Inability to commit to
a relationship• Difficulty expressing
emotions• Difficulty forming close
bonds•
Indecisiveness• Avoiding
flirting• Repeated new affairs•
Loneliness and
childlessness• Irritable or anxious reactions to stimuli. Strong avoidance and withdrawal, yet paradoxically a strong attraction (interested in everything related to relationships/love)
• Sleep
problems• Social isolation•
Breathing
difficulties• Irrational behavior and
pessimism• Depression
Causes
Causes of Philophobia
Phobias are displaced fears. This means they are an expression of unresolved conflicts and are shifted outward in the form of a phobia; they are projected onto an external, relatively harmless object that, at least from an objective perspective, one need not fear and which poses no threat. The displacement itself is no longer conscious, nor is the original conflict. As a result, the forbidden or overwhelming elements of the conflict can remain unconscious. These are then nevertheless partially acted out as a distorted phobic reaction. Most often, these conflicts arise in childhood, when processing or resolving them would not be possible.
When fear stems from a traumatic childhood experience, it is repressed. Such elements are always linked to power and control. This means that those affected are unable to behave differently. Even if they themselves realize that the fear is irrational, that it’s not worth it, etc., it is like a wall they cannot cross. Often this defense is introjected into mental forms, so that the person affected, for example, adopts the feeling or irrational conviction that the other person would not suit them at all, even though the exact opposite is true.
As a rule, nearly all causes of anxiety neuroses stem from traumatic childhood experiences. The specific conflict and fear underlying them are often unique to each individual and depend on their personal history. However, in the case of philophobia, there is a common thread: avoiding love is a form of self-protection. No love, no pain. This defense mechanism provides a false sense of security but prevents a deep, fulfilling relationship.
Behind this defense mechanism may lie, for example, the following fears and cognitive patterns, the origins of which often lie between birth and the first four years of life:
Fear of loss,
Fear of love,
Fear of revealing oneself, etc.
Any one of these fears, if it is strong enough, can on its own create a barrier that causes people to avoid love.
Even though this all sounds dramatic, ALL of these issues can be addressed—and thoroughly, at that. We’ve provided one option for doing so below.
