The Uses of Reminiscence - New Ways of Working With Older Adults

List of contents

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

About the author

Mark Kaminsky

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Marc Kaminsky, Mark Kaminsky
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780866562720
• ISBN: 978-0-86656-272-0
• No. of pages: 245
• Weight: 566 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychology of ageing, Literary studies: general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services