Constructing Panic

The Discourse of Agoraphobia

Lisa Capps

Elinor Ochs

Foreword by Jerome Bruner

    Foreword by 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

    Notes

    References

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Lisa Capps was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Berkeley.

Elinor Ochs is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University and the author of many books, including Acts of Meaning; On Knowing; The Process of Education; and Toward a Theory of Instruction (all published by Harvard).