In a marriage of psychology and linguistics, this book makes clear that for all its frustrations as an instrument, language is potent, the primary medium for symbolizing constructions of reality. The authors are sensitive to human experience and suffering, and their linguistic insights are subtle yet vivid.
   --Leon Tec, M.D., Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

Extraordinarily creative and thought-provoking, Constructing Panic will open up new vistas for thinking about this disorder and related emotional disorders as well.
   --Robert Emde, University of Colorado

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).

Read More by Lisa Capps:

• Children with Autism: A Developmental Perspective
• Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

Read More by Elinor Ochs:

• Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

Read More by Jerome Bruner:

• The Culture of Education
• Toward a Theory of Instruction
• Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
• On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, Second Edition
• Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
• The Process of Education, Revised Edition
• Minding the Law
• The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
• Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life