ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains how self-help groups came to occupy a more central place in this research, to mirror their centrality in sufferers' lives. It explores the obviously significant and recurring experiential themes of panic and consumption, in relation to the early existentialist theorizing of Kierkegaard. The book focuses on initially shifted to consider what could be described as the experiential and conceptual opposite of consumer spaces for the agoraphobic; that is the soothing and panic free, safe space of the home. It argues that whatever form or course is devised for individual agoraphobics, it must take account of the power of others to influence the shape and texture of social space. The book suggests that agoraphobic subjects may well benefit from the usage of therapies based on feminist models of selves, models that allow for differently felt and disparately constituted boundaries.
