Do I Look at You with Love?
Reimagining the Story of Dementia
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2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46058-4 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46058-4 (ISBN)
Do I Look at You with Love? explores the author’s mother’s dementia during her final years. Part narrative psychology, part memoir, Freeman’s story also highlights the beauty that may be found amidst of the ravages of time and memory.
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.
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.
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).
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.03.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Personal/Public Scholarship ; 9 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 269 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-46058-6 / 9004460586 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-46058-4 / 9789004460584 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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