Do I Look at You with Love?: Reimagining the Story of Dementia

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46058-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: Personal/Public Scholarship

Do I Look at You with Love? were the words uttered by Mark Freeman’s mother when she learned, once again, that he was her son. This book explores the experience of dementia as it transpired during the course of the final twelve years of her life, from the time of her diagnosis until her death in 2016 at age 93. As a longtime student of memory, identity, and narrative, as well as the son of a woman with dementia, he had a remarkable opportunity to try to understand and tell her story. Much of the story is tragic. But there were other periods and other dimensions of relationship that were beautiful and that could not have emerged without her very affliction. In the midst of affliction there were gifts, arriving unbidden, that served to alert Freeman and his family to what is most precious and real. These are part of the story too. Part narrative psychology, part memoir, part meditation on the beauty and light that might be found amidst the ravages of time and memory, Freeman’s moving story is emblematic of nothing less than the bittersweet reality of life itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Alzheimer und Demenz
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Familienpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Different Kind of Story

Chapter 1: A Relational Perspective on Dementia

Chapter 2: Protest

Chapter 3: Presence

Chapter 4: Dislocation

Chapter 5: Release

Chapter 6: Death, Dementia, and the Face of the Divine

Coda: Reimagining Dementia, Reimagining Life

References

About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Freeman, Ph.D. (1986), University of Chicago, is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross. His many writings include Rewriting the Self (1993), Hindsight (2010), and The Priority of the Other (2014).