Everyone knows the feeling of discomfort that comes when you get stuck in an elevator, especially with strangers, when a subway train suddenly stops, when you find yourself in a cave or grotto... When we find ourselves in a cramped, enclosed space, our unconscious responds with many feelings and anxieties. A closed space is always symbolically associated with the womb. On the one hand, I really want to return to it, to merge with my loving mother, as if to find a lost paradise, where there are no worries and worries, where all desires are anticipated and satisfied, where there is no need to care or worry about anything. On the other hand, such limitation and the enclosed space can feel like captivity and cause great anxiety. There is a fear of suffocating, being caught and dying in closed walls, in the mother's womb. A fear is born of being absorbed, of losing one’s own individuality, desires, thoughts, feelings and completely submitting to someone else’s will. As a rule, the manifestations of such existential fears, characteristic of each of us, are limited to a feeling of slight discomfort and the desire to quickly leave the enclosed space. In the case of claustrophobia, that is fear of a confined space, mild discomfort develops into severe anxiety, then panic horror. At the bodily level, a person feels a strong heartbeat, perspiration, and breathing and pulse may increase. There may even be manifestations of derealization and depersonalization, when everything around seems unreal or one’s own body feels changed, not the same as usual. With such attacks of claustrophobia, a person’s quality of life can suffer. Having once experienced the described unpleasant, frightening symptoms, a person will avoid places where he can feel something similar again. Fear can spread to increasingly large areas of a person’s life, or it can remain localized in certain rooms, for example, elevator cabins or subway cars. In psychotherapy for fear of enclosed spaces, much attention is paid not so much to the physical manifestations and fear itself, but to the meanings and meanings that a person imparts this fear. In the course of working with a psychologist, it is often discovered that along with manifestations of claustrophobia, it can be difficult for a person to get close to people and enter into close, long-term relationships with them. It turns out that he feels locked and deprived of freedom not only in the closed space of a room or cubicle, but also in the closed space of relationships. Colleagues, what meanings of claustrophobia were found in your work??