From the author: Depending on the type of relationship between people, there are three types of intimate phobia: sexual, spiritual and emotional. This article examines intimate phobia, which manifests itself in the spiritual sphere of relationships between partners. Spiritual intimate phobia is associated with the fear of revealing one’s true self, talking about one’s thoughts, desires, actions, and personal life. A person may be afraid of being misunderstood, of being subjected to reprisals for his views, beliefs, worldview, life principles, dreams, desires, etc. Thus, the people around and close to him are perceived by him as a certain threat to his personality. Among the reasons for the appearance of such fear, one can highlight traumatic situations experienced by an intimate phobe in the past: - deception or the belief that he was deceived - rejection or sharp criticism because of views, beliefs, desires, etc. - dissemination of information about a person’s personality among other people. At the same time, such situations may not exist in the person’s past, but are perceived as inevitable in the future. Such negative expectations may be associated with the projection onto oneself of other people’s life experiences, movie plots, literary works, user publications on social networks and forums. In addition, the formation of spiritual intimophobia could be influenced by parental attitudes and negative experiences of family life in the parental family. By projecting other people's situations onto himself, a person may come to the conclusion that it is safer to be withdrawn and closed, not to trust others with his thoughts, not to let them into his “inner world.” In addition, the formation of intimate phobia at the spiritual level may be associated with the low development of communicative skills skills due to social isolation (in childhood or adulthood), which makes him feel uncomfortable during confidential, open communication. For example, due to the development of asthma, a person in adolescence was forced to undergo home schooling. In this regard, during the sensitive period of developing communicative skills with peers, including those of the opposite sex, he was isolated from potential objects of communication. According to scientists, introverted individuals with a high level of anxiety are more susceptible to the development of spiritual intimacy phobia. Fear of spiritual intimacy can manifest itself in such types of phobias as allodoxaphobia, catagelophobia and enissophobia. Allodoxaphobia is the fear of expressing one's own opinion. This type of fear, according to scientists, is inextricably linked with xenophobia. Allodoxaphibia has three levels of manifestation. At the first level, the phobia manifests itself as a response to the assessment of judgments and statements on the part of the interlocutor. At the second level, fear manifests itself even before an opinion or judgment is expressed, which forces a person to refrain from expressing his thoughts. At the third level the appearance of fear is associated with a person’s mere thought that they will object to him in principle, no matter what he says, no matter what topic the conversation is on. Allodoxaphobia can form in childhood, when the child’s statements met a sharp negative reaction from adults, as well as as a result of observing such situations from the outside. This type of phobia can also develop in an adult in situations that traumatize his psyche, including those associated with psychological violence, bullying for one point of view or another on any issue. Social networks, blogs, forums also actively contribute to the development of this type of phobia, when a participant in a discussion or publication is subjected to massive, rude, harsh censure and other types of repression. Catagelophobia is the fear of being ridiculed, which can form at various stages of ontogenesis. In childhood, a child can become an object of ridicule both in the children's group and in the family. Typically, those suffering from catagelophobia try in every possible way to avoid situations in which they could become the object of ridicule. They either carefully disguise their shortcomings, as well as thoughts, ideas, desires,.