Davis has such an intense, irrational fear of clowns that he cannot take his daughters to see the circus when it is in town. Davis would be most correctly diagnosed as suffering from
A) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
B) panic disorder.
C) a phobia.
D) posttraumatic stress disorder.
Answer: C
Rationale: A phobia is a severe, irrational fear of a very specific object or situation. In contrast, panic disorder is characterized by panic attacks that generally do not occur in response to a single, identifiable trigger.
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