Beyond Loss
Dementia, Identity, Personhood
Published on 10. July 2014
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-19-996926-5 (ISBN)
Description
Coming to terms with dementia is one of the great challenges of our time. This volume of new interdisciplinary essays by internationally established scholars offers new ways of understanding and dealing with it. It explores views of dementia that go beyond the idea of loss, and rather envisions it as multilayered transformation and change of personhood and identity, and as development that mostly is socially shared with others. The studies collected here identify new empirical, theoretical, and methodological areas that will be crucial to future research and clinical practice concerned with age-related dementia. Three general themes are singled out as of particular importance and interest: persons and personhood, identity and agency, and the social and the communal.
Reviews / Votes
Fortunately, the cumulative effect of reading this volume is clarified insight into the needs and personhood of persons with dementia, and a new appreciation of what family-centered clinical research on dementia hopes to accomplish. * Metapsychology Online Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-996926-5 (9780199969265)
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Persons
Lars-Christer Hyden is Professor of Social Psychology at Linkoeping University. His research primarily concerns how people with Alzheimer's disease and their significant others interact and use language - especially narrative - as a way to sustain and negotiate identity and a sense of self.
Hilde Lindemann is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. A former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a Fellow of the Hastings Center, her published work includes Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair; An Invitation to Feminist Ethics; and Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities.
Jens Brockmeier is Professor of Psychology at The American University of Paris. With a background in psychology, philosophy, and language studies, his interests are in issues of memory, identity, and the autobiographical process, which he has examined in a variety of cultural contexts and under conditions of health and illness.
Hilde Lindemann is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. A former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a Fellow of the Hastings Center, her published work includes Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair; An Invitation to Feminist Ethics; and Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities.
Jens Brockmeier is Professor of Psychology at The American University of Paris. With a background in psychology, philosophy, and language studies, his interests are in issues of memory, identity, and the autobiographical process, which he has examined in a variety of cultural contexts and under conditions of health and illness.
Content
Hyden, Lindemann, Brockmeier: Beyond Loss - Introduction ; Part I: Persons, Personhood, and Dignity ; 1. Hilde Lindemann: Second Nature and the Tragedy of Alzheimer's ; 2. Steven R. Sabat: The Person with Dementia as Understood Through Stern's Critical Personalism ; 3. Lennart Nordenfelt: Dignity and Dementia ; 4. Ingrid Hellstrom: 'I'm his wife not his carer!' - Dignity and couplehood in dementia that the relationship>" ; Part II: Identity, Agency, Embodiment ; 5. Jens Brockmeier: Questions of Meaning: Identity, Memory, and Dementia ; 6. Maria I. Medved: Everyday dramas: Comparing life with dementia and acquired brain injury ; 7. Pia Kontos: Body and Self in Dementia ; 8. Alison Phinney: As the Body Speaks: Creative Activity in Dementia ; Part III: Communication, Family, and Institutions ; 9. Lars C. Hyden: Narrative collaboration and scaffolding in dementia ; 10. Camilla Lindholm: Supporting a Co-Conversationalist with Dementia: The Case of Questions ; 11. Pamela Roach, John Keady & Penny Bee: 'Familyhood' and Early Onset Dementia: Using Narrative and Biography to plot Longitudinal Adjustment to the Diagnosis ; 12. Linda Orulv: In Battle with Time: Agency and Control in a Self-Help Group for Persons with Dementia