Constructing Panic - The Discourse of Agoraphobia

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About the author

Lisa Capps was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.Elinor Ochs is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Bruner, Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1997
• EAN: 9780674165496
• ISBN: 978-0-674-16549-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Discourse of Agoraphobia; Discourse of Agoraphobia
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics