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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778532003321

Autore

Capps Lisa

Titolo

Constructing panic [[electronic resource] ] : the discourse of agoraphobia / / Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-674-02918-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OchsElinor

Disciplina

616.85225

Soggetti

Agoraphobia

Personal construct theory

Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Panic attacks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword by Jerome Bruner 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

Sommario/riassunto

Construcing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. Authored by a team comprising a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the book proposes a new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder.