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‘…the world was getting smaller’: women, agoraphobia and bodily boundaries
Author(s) -
Davidson Joyce
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2000.tb00112.x
Subject(s) - agoraphobia , anxiety , psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , anxiety disorder , psychiatry
Summary Drawing on individual and group interviews with agoraphobic women, this paper explores sufferers' accounts of agoraphobia as entailing apparent dysfunctions in spatial awareness. In particular, it examines the effects of agoraphobic anxiety on the lived boundaries of body and self and relates this to agoraphobics' contrasting experiences of the relative ‘security’ of the home and the unheimlich and disturbing architecture of the shopping mall.