Christine Bryden

Will I Still Be Me?

Finding a Continuing Sense of Self in the Lived Experience of Dementia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christine Bryden was diagnosed with dementia in 1995, but her experiences do not reflect the mainstream discourse of loss of self while living with dementia. In this book she explains why people with dementia have a meaningful and continuing sense of self and calls for a different understanding of dementia that results in greater inclusion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• 1st ed.
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 171g
• ISBN-13: 9781785925559
• ISBN-10: 1785925555
• Artikelnr.: 51519727

Autorenporträt

Christine Bryden has worked in the pharmaceutical industry and as a senior executive in the Australian Prime Minister's Department. Following her diagnosis with Alzheimer's Disease in 1995, she has been instrumental in setting up local support groups for people with dementia and has addressed national and international conferences. In 2003 she was the first person with dementia to be elected to the Board of Alzheimer's Disease International. Her first book Who will I be when I die? was published in 1998 and has been translated into several languages. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Am I losing my self? 2. Re-interpreted and re-packaged at diagnosis. 3.
How can I write a book? 4. Challenging loss of self in dementia. 5. 'I who
know that I exist inquire into what I am'. 6. Embodied self. 7. Relational
self. 8. Narrative self. 9. Upheld by others in the fullness of our
identity. 10. Who am I now if I no longer have dementia? 11. Conclusion.
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