Phobias: a circus parade of mental enslavement. Some fears attack us only momentarily, but others can stay with us for a lifetime. A person with a fear of heights might feel her pulse shoot up when she steps into a glass-walled elevator and ascends twenty stories over a hotel lobby. But her fear is over the moment she steps out of the elevator into the hotel hallway. On the other hand, our fears of failure, loneliness, rejection, impending disaster, or contracting a major illness never seem to go