Description: Constructing Panic : The Discourse of Agoraphobia, Paperback by Capps, Lisa; Ochs, Elinor, ISBN 0674165497, ISBN-13 9780674165496, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative that both describes their experience and locks them into it. Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors probe Meg's stories for constructions of emotions, actions, and events. They illustrate how Meg uses grammar and narrative structure to create and recreate emotional experiences that maintain her agoraphobic identity. In this work Capps and Ochs propose a startling new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Constructing Panic opens up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention. Readers will find in these pages hope for managing panic through careful attention to how we tell the story of our lives.
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Book Title: Constructing Panic : The Discourse of Agoraphobia
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Constructing Panic: the Discourse of Agoraphobia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Psychology
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 336 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Elinor Ochs, Lisa Capps
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology, Data Analysis
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
