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The Experience of Alzheimer's Disease: Life Through a Tangled Veil » (1st Edition)
Authors: Steven R. Sabat, Steven Sabat
ISBN-13: 9780631216667, ISBN-10: 0631216669
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Steven R. Sabat
Steven Sabat is Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington area chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease Association, and has co-led support groups for Alzheimer's sufferers.
Book Synopsis
At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer's Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionises our stereotypes of Alzheimer's patients and their care.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Ways of Understanding the Effects of the Disease | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Language and Communication | 24 |
| Ch. 3 | Excess Disability: The Potential Impact of Others in the Afflicted Person's Social World | 91 |
| Ch. 4 | The Maintenance of Self-Esteem | 114 |
| Ch. 5 | The Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer as a Semiotic Subject | 161 |
| Ch. 6 | Goals, Intentions, and the Alzheimer's Sufferer's Predicament in Light of Critical Personalism | 224 |
| Ch. 7 | Selfhood and the Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer | 274 |
| Ch. 8 | The Tangled Veil is also a Mirror | 309 |
| References | 341 | |
| Index | 351 |
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