Beyond Loss - Hydén, Lars C
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This collection of interdisciplinary essays by international researchers tries to see beyond the loss in dementia, exploring it as transformation and change of personhood and identity that typically is embedded in social life. The chapters identify three important themes: persons and personhood, identity and agency, and the social and the communal.

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This collection of interdisciplinary essays by international researchers tries to see beyond the loss in dementia, exploring it as transformation and change of personhood and identity that typically is embedded in social life. The chapters identify three important themes: persons and personhood, identity and agency, and the social and the communal.
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Lars-Christer Hydén is Professor of Social Psychology at Linköping 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.