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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674165496
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95210389
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Developmental Psychology, Data Analysis
Author
Elinor Ochs, Lisa Capps
Publication Name
Constructing Panic: the Discourse of Agoraphobia
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Psychology
Publication Year
1997
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
336g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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