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Constructing Panic : The Discourse of Agoraphobia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674029187
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing PanicDDC classification:
  • 616.85/225
LOC classification:
  • RC552
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Agony of Agoraphobia -- 2. In Her Own Words -- 3. Telling Panic -- 4. A Grammar of Panic -- 5. Accommodation as a Source of Panic -- 6. Nonaccommodation as an Outcome of Panic -- 7. Paradoxes of Panic -- 8. Constructing the Irrational Woman -- 9. Socializing Emotion -- 10. Socializing Anxiety -- 11. Therapeutic Insights -- Epilogue: Flying -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Offering a novel analysis of a patient's experience of agoraphobia, this collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist proposes a view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. It opens up potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by establishing a framework for therapeutic intervention.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Agony of Agoraphobia -- 2. In Her Own Words -- 3. Telling Panic -- 4. A Grammar of Panic -- 5. Accommodation as a Source of Panic -- 6. Nonaccommodation as an Outcome of Panic -- 7. Paradoxes of Panic -- 8. Constructing the Irrational Woman -- 9. Socializing Emotion -- 10. Socializing Anxiety -- 11. Therapeutic Insights -- Epilogue: Flying -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Offering a novel analysis of a patient's experience of agoraphobia, this collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist proposes a view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. It opens up potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by establishing a framework for therapeutic intervention.

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