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Tras estudiar un máster en Psicología Clínica, Dasha Kiper trabajó como cuidadora de un superviviente del Holocausto enfermo de alzhéimer. A partir de esa vivencia y de su posterior trabajo con cuidadores de enfermos con demencia, Kiper nos propone una nueva manera de ver y de entender la relación simbiótica que se establece entre los pacientes de alzhéimer y demencia y quienes tienen que cuidarlos. En las conmovedoras historias que Kiper recoge en el libro, explora los dilemas que plantean estos enfermos a quienes tienen que convivir con ellos: la tardía y repentina devoción católica de un hombre irrita a su mujer; un hombre cree que su pareja es una impostora; las amistades imaginarias de una mujer abren una brecha entre ella y su marido; el trauma infantil de una madre aflora para atormentar a su hijo... Combinando neurociencia y literatura, psicología y filosofía, con las enseñanzas de una serie de casos concretos, Kiper ilumina los particulares mecanismos mentales de estos enfermos y las dificultades que plantean a quienes tienen que cuidar de ellos, ofreciéndoles consuelo y comprensión a la vez que derriba el mito del cuidador perfecto.
After studying a master's degree in Clinical Psychology, Dasha Kiper worked as a caregiver for a Holocaust survivor suffering from Alzheimer's. Based on that experience and her subsequent work with caregivers of patients with dementia, Kiper proposes a new way of seeing and understanding the symbiotic relationship that is established between Alzheimer's and dementia patients and those who have to care for them. In the moving stories that Kiper collects in the book, she explores the dilemmas that these patients pose to those who have to live with them: a man's late and sudden Catholic devotion irritates his wife, a man believes that his partner is an imposter, a woman's imaginary friendships drive a wedge between her and her husband, a mother's childhood trauma emerges to torment her son... Combining neuroscience and literature, psychology and philosophy, with the teachings of a series of specific cases, Kiper illuminates the particular mental mechanisms of these patients and the difficulties they pose to those who they have to care for them, offering them comfort and understanding while debunking the myth of the perfect caregiver.
After studying a master's degree in Clinical Psychology, Dasha Kiper worked as a caregiver for a Holocaust survivor suffering from Alzheimer's. Based on that experience and her subsequent work with caregivers of patients with dementia, Kiper proposes a new way of seeing and understanding the symbiotic relationship that is established between Alzheimer's and dementia patients and those who have to care for them. In the moving stories that Kiper collects in the book, she explores the dilemmas that these patients pose to those who have to live with them: a man's late and sudden Catholic devotion irritates his wife, a man believes that his partner is an imposter, a woman's imaginary friendships drive a wedge between her and her husband, a mother's childhood trauma emerges to torment her son... Combining neuroscience and literature, psychology and philosophy, with the teachings of a series of specific cases, Kiper illuminates the particular mental mechanisms of these patients and the difficulties they pose to those who they have to care for them, offering them comfort and understanding while debunking the myth of the perfect caregiver.