Treatment and cure of neofobia

• Up to 95% of the cases had treatment and cure
Before they reach these levels, there is the consolation of knowing that the neofobia can be cured. "There are treatments that succeed in improving or curing phobias, and a 90% or 95% of those affected are evolving positively," said Rosa Martinez.

In saying this specialist, the neofobia was brought in a way very similar to the rest of the phobias of their category, ie through systematic desensitization, which is gradually accustomed to the person the object of his phobia, a process which lately has the help of modern computing.

"Based on psychological treatments, is developing what is called virtual exhibition: through a computer program simulates the situation comes at fóbica and the person who is seeing that same level of anxiety that it produces the actual situation.

Among those who believe that the developments are the spice of life and that they see as a threat to their peace of mind, it might be appropriate to recall a phrase from Seneca. For the philosopher from Cordoba two great enemies of peace were "the inability to change and the inability to endure."

The thing is many neofobia

"In our time, the novelty is a slogan that sells. Formerly, on the contrary, it was scary." This phrase of French historian Jean Delumeau summarized perfectly in the past how certain developments could cause waves neofobia causing violent reactions collective.

One example is the reaction of the French peasants in the seventeenth century when it set new rates recaudatorias in the area of the Perigord. Logically, that taxes will go up causing neofobia to anyone, but the problem was that rates were accompanied "the organization of the perception that people were not accustomed," says Delumeau in his book The fear in the West. The imposition of the papers stamped was flatly rejected by some people who were mostly illiterate.

All processes of religious XVI and XVII can be interpreted as a collective phenomenon of neofobia: Although Protestants and Calvinists were seen by many Catholics as dangerous innovators, the truth is that their intention was the opposite: to return to the purity of the Church primitive, fleeing the pollution thrown by the developments and innovations.

Religious conflicts brought about other changes that were not well received, as the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, which resulted in violent riots in Rome in 1582. In the twentieth century have not missed events that have provoked reactions neofóbicas, and the economy has had much to do in some of them, like the crack of Wall Street in 1929, or the collapse of the German mark in 1923.

Outside the business world, undoubtedly the biggest reaction was the epicenter of New York City on September 11, 2001, when the largest terrorist attack in history attracted millions of people the realization that the world as we knew it , Was completed and inaugurated a new era in which it was not easy to predict the course of events, a feeling of insecurity that still promises to accompany us for many years.

Winning the neofobia was a vital step in the evolution

Any comment anthropological give certain that mankind was born somewhere in the African continent, and from there, along with hundreds of thousands of years, it was spreading around the globe. This phenomenon of migration could not have given a kind dominated by neofobia, and is the exploratory spirit of man a feature that has most contributed to his success as a species.

There is still unresolved the question of whether this spirit born in our genetic code or wine driven by external factors. But, whether they descend from the trees on his own initiative, or were forced upon them by the competition he had in the branches for food, to expand and survive as a species it was necessary to overcome the fear of the unknown.

A brief review of the history we can see that humanity, either as individuals, groups or organizations, has always had a tendency to neofobia. In his book Thirst Subias, conventions prophets, the Nobel laureate physicist Georges Charpak and Roland Omnes offer an interesting historical study on the difficulties that took modern science to be heard in an age definitely little friendly news, with the trials of Giordano Bruno and Galileo by the Inquisition parle.

Eat with someone with neofobia

If we were to classify fans to people in groups, we could say that there are two types of people: those. when they enter their usual cafe, test new things on the menu, and you always ask the same thing.

This trend is one of the areas to be examined by specialists that deal with neofobia food, a field that is providing valuable information on the eating habits of children and adolescents, and even differences in personality of the most monotonous at the table with respect to those more adventurous palate.

The aversion to new foods can be measured by the Food Neophobia Scale, developed by psychologists Patricia Pliner and Karen Hobden, in 1992 and consists of ten phrases that the subject must rank as one to seven is more or less agree what they said.

For example: "I am always trying new foods and different", "I am afraid to eat things that I have not eaten before" or "ethnic foods look too weird to eat." The neófobos food not only prove less new plates, but they get less pleasure to try them ... although they like.

This has led to the team of specialists such as Robert A. Frank, of the University of Cincinnati, USA, to determine that what they are looking really fans of all is to try to meet their continuing search for new developments in the field of food, as do all other fields of vetch.

It is not unusual for the group of neofílicos especially appreciate the spicy, meat and alcoholic beverages, while the supporters of neófobos are more casual platito of Swiss. Carried to an extreme, the neofobia food can cause serious damage to health.

Children and adolescents have been the subject of intensive investigations with a view to determining which factors influence preferences and rejection of their diet as a way of correcting any permanent disorder in their food.