A Guardian 'Best ideas book of 2023'
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'The best book I have ever read that explores the effect on the brain of the carer, when someone has dementia' Professor June Andrews, author of Dementia: The One-Stop Guide
Dasha Kiper was twenty-five when she first became the live-in carer for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer's disease. She soon discovered the emotional strain and challenges of caring for a person whose condition disrupts the rules of time, order and continuity. In Travellers to Unimaginable Lands, Kiper explores the complex and profound psychology of caregiving, illuminating how the healthy brain's biases and intuitions make caring for people with dementia disorders so profoundly and inherently difficult.
Blending neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and literature with beautifully-observed case studies, Kiper illuminates the underlying mental mechanisms behind carers' experiences, dispels the myth of the perfect caregiver and, in the process, opens the door to understanding and forgiveness.
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Travellers to Unimaginable Lands
Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind
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Table of contents
- Praise for Travellers to Unimaginable Lands
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword by Norman Doidge
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: Borges in the Bronx: Why We Canāt Remember That Alzheimerās Patients Forget
- 2: āThe Weak Childā: Why Itās So Hard to Change Our Responses
- 3: Dementia Blindness: Why It Takes So Long to See the Disease
- 4: Chekhov and the Left-Brain Interpreter: Why We Believe That the Person We Used to Know Is Still There
- 5: The Insistent, Persistent CEO: Why We Feel Patients Are Still Capable of Self-Awareness
- 6: When Every Day Is Sunday: Why We Dispute a Patientās Reality
- 7: My Dinner with Stefan Zweig: Why We Take Patientsā Words and Actions Personally
- 8: The Mastermind: Why We Continue to Rely on Reason
- 9: Ah Humanity: Why We Attribute Intention to Patientsā Behaviors
- 10: When the Right Thing Is the Wrong Thing: Why Itās So Hard to Let Go of Blame
- 11: Word Girl: Why We Persist
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Type
- Copyright
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