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Surviving manifestations of selfhood in Alzheimer's disease
— a case study | | Author(s) | Steven R Sabat |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 1, no 1, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp 25-36 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personality ; Cognitive processes ; Theory ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | A Social Construction Theory analysis of selfhood is applied to the natural conversational discourse of a person moderately to severely afflicted with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Revealed in this discourse are: an intact Self 1, the self of personal identity; and Self 2, comprising mental and physical attributes and related beliefs. New Self 2 attributes include deficits connected with the neuropathology of the disease. The multiple Self 3, social personae, which require the co-operation of healthy others, are found to exist; but this aspect of self is vulnerable to the extent to which the attention of others is focused on new dysfunctional Self 2 attributes, the afflicted person's social persona is restricted to "the patient". If attention is focused on remaining healthy Self 2 attributes, it is possible for the afflicted person to construct worthy Self 3 personae in which he or she can take pride and enjoy a measure of satisfaction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020624217 A |
| Classmark | EA: DK: DA: 4D: 69P |
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