Awakening from the Dream of Thought: Research into Dramatherapy and Dementia

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…“The self that is shattered in dementia will not naturally coalesce; the Other is needed to hold the fragments together. As subjectivity breaks apart, so inter-subjectivity must take over if personhood is to be maintained.”

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