claustromania: A pathological desire to be confined and enclosed within a small space. Such patients show a predilection for introversion and isolation, often with a strong need for solitude and silence.
claustrophobia: An intense fear of being shut up in a confined space; such as, closets, subways, tunnels, telephone booths, elevators, rooms, crowds, caves, or other enclosed spaces.
Claustrophobics react to the feeling of being hemmed in or trapped with severe panic or a feeling of suffocation. There is also the morbid fear of being below the ground level; such as, in submarines or in underground trains.s
There are those who are afraid to be in a car or a room in which they can't open a window or in which the door is closed or the shades drawn. Some people get panicky if they must sit in the center row in a church, theater, or an airplane. A few can accommodate their fears, to some degree, by sitting at the end of the row or by the aisle.
As a result of being hemmed in or trapped to any degree, claustrophobics may have severe panic and physiological symptoms including increased pulse beat. They often feel that they are suffocating and may have shortness of breath as if something were crushing their chests.
This phobic word comes from claustrum, a Latin element meaning "bolt" or "lock"; as if someone were "locked" into some space.
cleanliness, bathing: ablutomania, ablutophobia
cleisiophobia: Fear of closed spaces or of being locked in an enclosed place.
cleistophobia, cleithrophobia: An intensive fear of closed spaces or of being locked in or of just being in enclosed places. This term is another form of claustrophobia.
cleptomania: A spelling variation of kleptomania. The impulse to steal without any apparent need for the items stolen.
Stolen art in France ended up in canal
Police held woman whose son looted museums for years
In a case unprecedented even in the shadowy underworld of art theft, the French police arrested a French woman who admitted destroying or throwing into a canal an estimated $1.4 billion worth of painting and art objects that her son had stolen from dozens of museums in France and five neighboring countries (Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland, and Germany) over the past eight years. The woman's thirty-one year old son made no effort to sell the 60 paintings and 112 art objects that he admitted stealing.
He was considered "an eccentric kleptomaniac who loved 17th and 18th century art" and he kept his stolen art works in a bedroom at his mother's house in Mulhouse, in eastern France.
He was arrested while trying to steal a bugle from another museum in Lucerne, Switzerland; at which time his mother immediately decided to get rid of the incriminating evidence by shredding the paintings and throwing them into the trash and dumping the other solid-art objects into a local canal.
I enjoy art, suspect told prosecutors
"I enjoy art, I love such works of art, I collected them and kept them at home", said the man who had been classified as a cleptomaniac.
International Herald Tribune,
May 17 and May 23, 2002.
cleptophobia, kleptophobia: An excessive fear of having one's property stolen by robbers, burglars, etc.
Sometimes this fear motivates people to have elaborate burglar-alarm systems in their homes and businesses and several locks on their doors; too often with some justification.
Don't place too much confidence in the man
who boasts of being as honest as the day is long.
Wait until you meet him at night.
-Robert C. Edwards
No passion so effectually robs the mind
of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
-Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher and statesman
Thieves respect property.
They merely wish the property to become their property
that they may more perfectly respect it.
-G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
O God, give us serenity to accept what can not be changed;
courage to change what should be changed,
and wisdom to distinguish the one from the the other.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
cliffs: cremnomania, cremnophobia
