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This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold
phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our
need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience.
Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and
gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding
the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a
genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that
is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create
selves and communities.
Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and
on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the
authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these
collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject
to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter,
written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn
to "unfinished narratives," those stories that will never have a
comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities,
part social science--their book captures these complexities and
fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and
among us.
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 them
into it. 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 probe Meg's stories for constructions of
emotions, actions, and events. They illustrate how Meg uses grammar
and narrative structure to create and re-create emotional
experiences that maintain her agoraphobic identity. In this work
Capps and Ochs propose a startling new view of agoraphobia as a
communicative disorder. Constructing Panic opens 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. Readers will find in these pages hope for
managing panic through careful attention to how we tell the story
of our lives.
A window on the insular world of autism, this book offers a rare
close look at the mysterious condition that afflicts approximately
350,000 Americans and affects millions more. As they make sense of
the many features of autism at every level of intellectual
functioning across the life span, Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps
weave together clinical vignettes, research findings,
methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result
is a compelling, comprehensive view of the disorder, as true to
human experience as it is to scientific observation. Children with
Autism is unique in that it views autism through the lens of
developmental psychopathology, a discipline grounded in the belief
that studies of normal and abnormal development can inform and
enhance one another. Sigman and Capps conduct readers through the
course of development from infancy to adulthood, outlining the
differences between normal and autistic individuals at each stage
and highlighting the links between growth in cognitive, social, and
emotional domains. In particular, Sigman and Capps suggest that
deficits in social understanding emerge in the early infancy of
autistic children, and they explore how these deficits organize the
development of autistic individuals through the course of their
lives. They also examine the effects certain characteristics can
have on an autistic person's adjustment over time. Their book
concludes with an overview of existing interventions and promising
avenues for further research.
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