Fear of trains fear about rail travel was heightened after British surgeon John Eric Erichsen described a post-traumatic diagnosis known as railway spine or "Erichsen's disease". People diagnosed with this had no obvious injury and were rejected as fake. Nowadays it is known that traffic accidents may cause posttraumatic stress disorder. It has been variously called as "train phobia", "railroad phobia", "dread of railway travel", etc. The German term "Eisenbahnangst" used, e.g., by Sigmund Freud was literally converted into Greek as "siderodromophobia" (Eisen = sideron = iron, Bahn = dromos = way, Angst = phobos = fear). In cases when this anxiety exceeds
Fear Is the Mindkiller Fear Is the Mindkiller Fear Is the Mindkiller is a remix EP containing remixes of songs from the first album "Soul of a New Machine" by Fear Factory. It was released on April 14, 1993 by Roadrunner Records. Remixes 1-5 were remixed by Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly. The EP was remastered and re-released on October 5, 2004 in a digipak, packaged together with the remastered "Soul of a New Machine" without Self Immolation. The title of the record is a quote from "Litany against fear", a fictional incantation from "Dune", the science fiction novel written