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Self-Psychology: Its Application to Understanding Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Lawrence W. Lazarus ,
Bertram J. Cohler  and
Jary Lesser
Lawrence W. Lazarus
Affiliation:
Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Bertram J. Cohler
Affiliation:
Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Jary Lesser
Affiliation:
Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Although the essence of one's identity—one's self-esteem—is eroded and devastated by Alzheimer's disease, little attention has been paid to the regression and dissolution of the self experienced by patients with this disease. Investigations into the psychology of the self by psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut and others have provided new ways of understanding a demented patient's attempts to maintain some semblance of self-esteem and identity in the wake of progressive cognitive decline.

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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 253 - 258
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© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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