| Description |
xix, 245 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: a time for reclaiming the past / Rose Dobrof -- I. Modes of practice. Transfiguring life: images of continuity hidden among the fragments / Marc Kaminsky -- The passion of recollection / Barbara Baracks -- Snug Harbor: workshops at the National Maritime Union / Dale Worsley -- A stage for memory: living history plays by older adults / Susan Perlstein -- At the center of the story / Grace Worth -- Tapping the legacy / Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -- Heal, body, heal: invocations to hope and health / Rochelle Ratner -- About ending / Roland Legiardi-Laura -- Minerva's doll / Janet Bloom -- II. Concepts and practices. The uses of reminiscence: a discussion of the formative literature / Marc Kaminsky -- Reminiscence and the recovery of the public world / Harry R. Moody -- Journey through the feminine: the life review poems of William Carlos Williams / Bill Zavatsky -- Old people, poetry, and groups / George Getzel -- Realities of aging: starting points for imaginative work with the elderly / Susan Miller London -- III. Appendix. A bibliography on reminiscence and life review / Harry R. Moody -- IV. Notes. |
| Note |
"Has also been published as Journal of gerontological social work, volume 7, numbers 1/2, March 1984"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
"A bibliography of reminiscence and life review [by] Harry R. Moody": pages 231-236. |
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Bibliography: pages 239-245. |
| Subject |
Gerontology -- Biographical methods.
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Older people.
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Social work with older people -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Kaminsky, Marc, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0866562729 |
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0866562850 soft |
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