
Entangled Narratives
Collaborative Storytelling and the Re-Imagining of Dementia
Lars-Christer Hyden(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 28. December 2017
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-19-939157-8 (ISBN)
Description
As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase. Because many will live a considerable time at home with their diagnosis, we need to know more about the ways people can adapt to and learn to live with dementia in their everyday lives. Lars-Christer Hyden argues in this book that to do so will involve re-imagining what dementia really is and what it can mean to the afflicted and their loved ones.
One of the most important everyday opportunities for sharing experiences is the simple act of storytelling. But when someone close to you gradually loses the ability to tell stories and cherish the shared history you have together, this is seen as a threat to the relationship, to the feeling of belonging together, and to the identity of the person diagnosed. Therefore, learning about how people with dementia can participate in storytelling along with their families and friends helps to sustain those relationships and identities.
In Entangled Narratives, Hyden not only emphasizes the possibilities that are inherent in collaborative storytelling, but instructs professionals and otherwise healthy relatives to learn how to effectively listen and, ultimately, re-imagine their patients and loved ones as collaborative meaning-makers in their lives.
One of the most important everyday opportunities for sharing experiences is the simple act of storytelling. But when someone close to you gradually loses the ability to tell stories and cherish the shared history you have together, this is seen as a threat to the relationship, to the feeling of belonging together, and to the identity of the person diagnosed. Therefore, learning about how people with dementia can participate in storytelling along with their families and friends helps to sustain those relationships and identities.
In Entangled Narratives, Hyden not only emphasizes the possibilities that are inherent in collaborative storytelling, but instructs professionals and otherwise healthy relatives to learn how to effectively listen and, ultimately, re-imagine their patients and loved ones as collaborative meaning-makers in their lives.
Reviews / Votes
"I mean it as the highest praise that Hyden has produced a distinctly Goffmanesque understanding of dementia. Entangled Narratives takes a position; it advocates in its own way. "-- Narrative Works
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
537 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-939157-8 (9780199391578)
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Person
Lars-Christer Hyden is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Center for Dementia Research at Linkoeping University in Sweden. His research primarily concerns how people with Alzheimer's disease and their significant others interact and tell stories to sustain and negotiate identity and a sense of self. He has published articles in international journals and edited several books about narrative research.
Author
Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Center for Dementia ResearchProfessor of Social Psychology and Director of the Center for Dementia Research, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Content
Chapter 1: Personhood Regained
Chapter 2: Dementia, Selves, and Stories
Chapter 3: Dementia: Living with a Changing Brain
Chapter 4: Stories: Making Worlds and Selves
Chapter 5: Scaffolding: Stories told in Collaboration
Chapter 6: Embodied Memories
Chapter 7: Selves and Interdependent Identities
Chapter 8: Listening with a Third Ear
Chapter 2: Dementia, Selves, and Stories
Chapter 3: Dementia: Living with a Changing Brain
Chapter 4: Stories: Making Worlds and Selves
Chapter 5: Scaffolding: Stories told in Collaboration
Chapter 6: Embodied Memories
Chapter 7: Selves and Interdependent Identities
Chapter 8: Listening with a Third Ear