Dementia : Mind, Meaning, and the Person.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Julian.

Contributor:

Louw, Stephen.

Sabat, Steven R.

Series:

International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Self (Philosophy).

Dementia-Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Other Title:

Dementia

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2006.

Summary:

Dementia: mind, meaning, and the person brings together philosophers and psychiatrists to explore the conceptual issues raised by this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia. They show how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spritual environment. Accessibly written by leading figures in psychiatry andphilosophy, the book presents a unique and long overdue examination of an illness that features in so many of our lives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of contributors

1 Seeing whole

2 Ageing and human nature

3 Dementia and personal identity

4 Identity, self, and dementia

5 Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia

6 Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology, and disunities of consciousness

7 Keeping track, autobiography, and the conditions for self-erosion

8 The discursive turn, social constructionism, and dementia

9 The return of the living dead: agency lost and found?

10 Dementia and the identity of the person

11 Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective

12 I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia

13 Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood

14 Respectare: moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful

15 Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort

16 Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia

17 From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and dependence through the ages of life

18 Mind, meaning, and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4237-4329-6

OCLC:

1063794608