Constructing panic : the discourse of agoraphobia

The Resource Constructing panic : the discourse of agoraphobia

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Constructing panic : the discourse of agoraphobia

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the discourse of agoraphobia

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Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs

Language

eng

Summary

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 re-create emotional experiences that maintain her agoraphobic identity

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CaPaEBR

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index present

LC call number

RC552.A44

LC item number

C37 1995eb

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non fiction

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