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Constructing panic : the discourse of agoraphobia /

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Capps, Lisa (Author), Ochs, Elinor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1995]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / 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.