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When Words Have Lost Their Meaning: Alzheimer's Patients Communicate through Art
By Ruth Abraham
224 pages
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- Praeger
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- Westport, CT
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- 2005
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Synopsis
Therapist Abraham shows how art can provide people with Alzheimer's disease with a way to express their thoughts and emotions, when they can no longer communicate well verbally and words have lost their meaning. Abraham believes it is one's moral obligation to provide elders with this tool, lest they be prematurely deemed beyond interaction. The confidence and self-esteem of elders--and that of the people who love them--can be bolstered by art therapy. And this is the first work demonstrating that ...
Therapist Abraham shows how art can provide people with Alzheimer's disease with a way to express their thoughts and emotions, when they can no longer communicate well verbally and words have lost their meaning. Abraham believes it is one's moral obligation to provide elders with this tool, lest they be prematurely deemed beyond interaction. The confidence and self-esteem of elders--and that of the people who love them--can be bolstered by art therapy. And this is the first work demonstrating that art is not just busy work for those with Alzheimer's, but a profound and symbolic method allowing them to communicate. This work includes more than 70 drawings and paintings by people with Alzheimer's, and case histories of the men and women who created the artworks.
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Table of contents
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- When Words Have Lost Their Meaning i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- 1: Getting to Know the Alzheimer's Patient 15
- 2: Does Art Therapy Really Help? 31
- 3: The Therapeutic Hour: a Practical Guide 59
- 4: Theoretical Perspectives 87
- 5: Portraits: Three Case Studies 105
- 6: Promoting Art Therapy for Alzheimer's Patients 139
- 7: A Personal Story 165
- Afterword 179
- References 181
- Index 187
- When Words Have Lost Their Meaning i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- 1: Getting to Know the Alzheimer's Patient 15
- 2: Does Art Therapy Really Help? 31
- 3: The Therapeutic Hour: a Practical Guide 59
- 4: Theoretical Perspectives 87
- 5: Portraits: Three Case Studies 105
- 6: Promoting Art Therapy for Alzheimer's Patients 139
- 7: A Personal Story 165
- Afterword 179
- References 181
- Index 187
- About the Author 193