Constructing Panic The Discourse of Agoraphobia |
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| Author:
| Capps, Lisa
Ochs, Elinor |
| Foreword by:
| Bruner, Jerome |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-16549-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $68.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.