Self-experience in Dementia

Self-experience in Dementia

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This paper develops a phenomenological analysis of the disturbances of self-experience in dementia.After considering the lack of conceptual clarity regarding the notions of self and person in current research on dementia, we develop a phenomenological theory of the structure of self-experience in the first section.Within this complex structure, we distinguish Música e Identidade: relatos de autobiografias musicais em pacientes com esclerose múltipla Music and identity: musical autobiographies in multiple sclerosis patients between the basic level of pre-reflective self-awareness, the episodic sense of self, and the narrative constitution of the self.In the second section, we focus on dementia and argue that, despite the impairment of narrative self-understanding, more basic moments of self-experience are preserved.

In accordance with the theory Mitigation of salinity stress in canola plants by sodium nitroprusside application developed in the first part, we argue that, at least until the final stages of the illness, these self-experience in dementia goes beyond the pure minimal self, and rather entail forms of self-reference and an episodic sense of self.