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16.1 - Commentary on “Embodied Selfhood and Personal Identity in Dementia”

A Lifeworld Account of Personal Identity

from Part IV - Depression, Schizophrenia, and Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

By
Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen
Edited by
Christian Tewes  and
Giovanni Stanghellini
Christian Tewes
Affiliation:
Heidelberg University Hospital
Giovanni Stanghellini
Affiliation:
Chieti University
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Summary

The question of personal identity is of considerable societal importance. Its importance becomes particularly clear when discussing the experience of patients with terminal Alzheimer's dementia (P-TAD). Can such patients still be considered as persons even though they have forgotten essential facts about their lives? Is being a person compatible with the key symptoms of advanced Alzheimer's dementia (AD)?

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Time and Body
Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches
 , pp. 390 - 395
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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