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Constructing Panic
Lisa Capps
Elinor Ochs
Foreword by Jerome Bruner
Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors propose a new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Capps and Ochs open up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention.
Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
The Science and Fiction of Autism
Laura Schreibman
In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism through the context of its controversies, showing where extraordinary and unfounded claims have falsely raised hopes, stirred fears, and ruined lives.
Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007