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On Agoraphobia

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內容簡介 作者Graham Caveney在19歲時時發現自己罹患廣場恐懼症，外出到人多擁擠的地方讓他呼吸困難、心跳加速甚至血壓飆高。 從此他的世界再也沒有人行道、雙行車道或購物中心，彷彿將自己隔絕於時間之外。 由於無法出門，Graham Caveney大量閱讀小說、詩等各種文學作品，在書頁間，瞥見世界的另一種面貌；同時，他也藉由文字，開始思考自己罹患這種病的根源。 他出生自藍領階級家庭，忙碌的父母疏於照護，甚至沒發現他有發展障礙。小時候被學校老師性侵，讓他罹患焦慮症，且後半生都在處理傷痛的殘局。 度過青少年的痛苦焦慮與依賴酒精逃避的時期，經歷各式各樣的療程和藥物治療，現在他練習瑜珈，參加互助團體，甚至會驅使自己外出走動。 Graham Caveney並非寫下治療廣場恐懼症的方法，而是學會與自己和平共存，在富有知識、幽默自嘲卻又充滿洞見的文字裡，展現他擁抱傷痛與理解自我的勇氣。 If we’re talking agoraphobia, we’re talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and neurosis, uneasy bedfellows sleeping top to toe. When Graham Caveney was in his early twenties he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors. Graham’s quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee’s Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson, and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics – once you go looking for them. On Agoraphobia is a fascinating, entertaining and sometimes painfully acute look at what it means to go through life with an anxiety disorder that evades easy definition.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Graham CaveneyGraham Caveney is a freelance writer. He has written on music and fiction for the NME, The Face and the Independent. He is the author of two previous books, on William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

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