Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia

by Lisa Capps, Elinor. Ochs, Elinor Ochs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674165497
• ISBN13: 9780674165496
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.9"