Kaminsky The Uses of Reminiscence

New Ways of Working With Older Adults
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-82406-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten

The meaning and value of reminiscence in the lives of elders is beautifully explored.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaminsky, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Introduction: A Time for Reclaiming the Past - I. Modes of Practice - Transfiguring Life: Images of Continuity Hidden Among the Fragments - The Passion of of Recollection - Snug Harbor: Workshops at the National Maritime Union - A Stage for Memory: Living History Plays by Older Adults - At the Center of the Story - Tapping the Legacy - Heal, Body, Heal: Invocations to Hope and Health - About Ending - Minerva’s Doll - II. Concepts and Practices - The Uses of Reminiscence: A Discussion of the Formative Literature - Reminiscence and the Recovery of the Public World - Journey Through the Feminine: The Life Review Poems of William Carlos Williams - Old People, Poetry, and Groups - Realities of Aging: Starting Points for Imaginative Work with the Elderly - A Kind of Odyssey - III. Appendix - IV. Notes