When Words Have Lost Their Meaning: Alzheimer's Patients Communicate through Art - Hardcover

Abraham, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 027597989X ISBN 13: 9780275979898

Verlag: Praeger Publishers Inc, 2004

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Book by Abraham Ruth

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"In this immensely moving account Ruth Abraham gives a powerful sense of the life of the patient affected by Alzheimer's. Through lovingly described clinical examples and vivid pictorial illustrations she takes us into the world of the patient and their carers. The book offers practical advice alongside sensitive descriptions of the ravages of the disease but none the less it always remains optimistic. It becomes clear that art therapy can offer a positive contribution by facilitating expression of the personality long after many other faculties have diminished. This is a true contribution to the art therapy literature and it will be a must for art therapists and it will also be of significant interest to all those professionals who work with this client group as well as their families and carers."-Joy Schaverien, Professor of Art Psychotherapy, University of Sheffield, author of The Revealing Image

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Therapist Abraham shows how art can provide people with Alzheimer's disease 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 our 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. Art activities, with a significant therapeutic relationship, can especially increase quality of life for people with Alzheimer's, particularly during the seven-year relatively stable period of the illness. Psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists and health care workers will also find this work especially valuable and insightful.

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• Verlag: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 027597989X
• ISBN 13: 9780275979898
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224