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Finding the Right Words - A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain (Hardcover)
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Finding the Right Words - A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
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The moving story of an English professor studying neurology in
order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from
Alzheimer's. Winner of the Memoir Prize for Books by the Memoir
Magazine In 1985, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student at UC
Berkeley, her beloved father, Jerry, was diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer's disease. He was fifty-eight years old. Twelve years
later, at age seventy, he died having lost all of his
memories-along with his ability to read, write, and speak. Finding
the Right Words follows Weinstein's decades-long journey to come to
terms with her father's dementia as both a daughter and an English
professor. Although her lifelong love of language and literature
gave her a way to talk about her grief, she realized that she also
needed to learn more about the science of dementia to make sense of
her father's death. To write her story, she collaborated with Dr.
Bruce L. Miller, neurologist and director of the Memory and Aging
Center at the University of California, San Francisco, combining
personal memoir, literature, and the science and history of brain
health into a unique, educational, and meditative work. Finding the
Right Words is an invaluable guide for families dealing with a
life-changing diagnosis. In chapters of profound and sometimes
humorous remembrance, Weinstein relies on literature to describe
the shock of her father's diagnosis and his loss of language and
identity. Writing in response to Weinstein's deeply personal
narrative, Dr. Miller describes the neurological processes
responsible for the symptoms displayed by her father. He also
reflects upon his own personal and professional experiences. In a
final chapter about memory, Weinstein is able to remember her
father before the diagnosis, and Miller explains how the brain
creates memories while sharing some of his own. Their two
perspectives give readers a fuller understanding of Alzheimer's
than any one voice could.
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