Beyond Loss

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.

Hyden, Lindemann, Brockmeier: Beyond Loss - Introduction ; Part I: Persons, Personhood, and Dignity ; 1. Hilde Lindemann: Second Nature and the Tragedy of Alzheimer's ; 2. Steven R. Sabat: The Person with Dementia as Understood Through Stern's Critical Personalism ; 3. Lennart Nordenfelt: Dignity and Dementia ; 4. Ingrid Hellstrom: 'I'm his wife not his carer!' - Dignity and couplehood in dementia that the relationship>" ; Part II: Identity, Agency, Embodiment ; 5. Jens Brockmeier: Questions of Meaning: Identity, Memory, and Dementia ; 6. Maria I. Medved: Everyday dramas: Comparing life with dementia and acquired brain injury ; 7. Pia Kontos: Body and Self in Dementia ; 8. Alison Phinney: As the Body Speaks: Creative Activity in Dementia ; Part III: Communication, Family, and Institutions ; 9. Lars C. Hyden: Narrative collaboration and scaffolding in dementia ; 10. Camilla Lindholm: Supporting a Co-Conversationalist with Dementia: The Case of Questions ; 11. Pamela Roach, John Keady & Penny Bee: 'Familyhood' and Early Onset Dementia: Using Narrative and Biography to plot Longitudinal Adjustment to the Diagnosis ; 12. Linda Orulv: In Battle with Time: Agency and Control in a Self-Help Group for Persons with Dementia