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This paper is an attempt to study school phobias comprehensively. It was undertaken in the hope that a fuller understanding of some etiological, dynamic, and therapeutic factors might enable us to deal more effectively with these problems. I consider school phobia to be a neurosis characterized by fixation to the anal-sadistic phase of development, persistence of ambivalence, narcissism, and magical
thinking (fantasy of omnipotence), and more closely related to the compulsion neuroses than to anxiety hysteria.