Reading List
About the TimeSlips Project
Basting, Anne. 2002. “God is a Talking Horse: Dementia and the Performance of Self.” TDR Fall: 78-94.
---. 2001. ‘‘It’s 1924 and Somewhere in Texas, Two Nuns Are Driving a Backwards Volkswagen’: Storytelling with People with Dementia.” In Aging and the Meaning of Time, edited by Susan H. McFadden and Robert C. Atchley. New York: Springer, 131-149.
---. Forthcoming. “Dare to Imagine: Exploring the Creative Potential of People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia.” In Mental Wellness and Aging: Strength-based Approaches, edited by Judah Ronch and Joseph Goldfield. Baltimore: Health Professions Press.
Literary Theory
Couser, Thomas G. 1997. Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Frank, Arthur. 1995. The Wounded Storyteller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Halbwachs, Maurice. 1992. On Collective Memory. Trans. Lewis A. Coser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Olney, James. 1999. Memory and Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Psychology
Schacter, Daniel L. 1996. Searching for Memory. New York: Basic Books.
Sociology/Anthropology
Goffman, Eriving. 1963. Stigma: Notes on the Managment of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Holstein, James and Jay Gubrium. 2000. The Self We Live By: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Myerhoff, Barbara. 1992. Remembered Lives: The work of ritual, storytelling, and growing older. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Autobiography/Biography
Davis, Robert. 1989. My Journey into Alzheimer’s Disease. Wheaton, I.L.: Tyndale House Publishers.
Debaggio, Thomas. 2002. Losing my Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer’s. New York: Free Press.
Henderson, Cary Smith. 1998. Partial View: An Alzheimer’s Journal. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press.
McGowin, Diana Friel. 1993. Living in the Labyrinth. New York: Delacorte Press.
Dementia Care: Practice
Nissenboim, Sylvia and Christine Vroman. 1998. The Positive Interactions Program of Activies for People with Alzheimer’s Disease. Baltimore: Health Professions Press.
Bell, Virginia and David Troxell. 2001. The Best Friends Staff: Building a culture of care in Alzheimer’s programs. Baltimore: Health Professions Press.
---. 1996. The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Care. Baltimore: Health Professions Press.
Strauss, Claudia J. 2002. Talking to Alzheimer’s: Simple ways to connect when you visit a family member or friend. New Harbinger Publishers.
Zgola, Jitka. 1986. Doing Things: A guide to programming activities for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dementia Care: Theory and History
Golander, Hava and Aviad Raz. 1996 “The Mask of Dementia: Images of ‘Demented Residents’ in a Nursing Ward.” Ageing and Society. Vol. 16: 269-285.
Kitwood, Tom. 1997. Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First. Buckingham, England: Open University Press.
Post, Stephen. 1995a. The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer’s Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
---. 1995b “Alzheimer’s Disease and the ‘Then’ Self.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Vol. 5.4.: 307-321.
Sabat, Steven. 2001. The Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease: Life Through a Tangled Veil. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Sabat, Steven and Rom Harré. 1992. “The Construction and Deconstruction of Self in Alzheimer’s Disease.” Ageing and Society Vol.12.: 443-461.
Shenk, David. The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic. New York: Doubleday.
Vittoria, Anne. 1998 . “Preserving Selves: Identity Work and Dementia.” Research and Aging. Vol. 20.1.: 91-137.
