nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000210 duepublico_mods_00000210 ger DE-601 rda ger 800 sdnb Watanabe, Ryoko Author aut Authoring the Narrative Self in Dementia Care. A Bakhtinian Perspective Watanabe, Ryoko text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier This article examines the co-creation of narrative self in dementia care and the therapist’s expertise in the process. Applying Bakhtin’s theory of dialogue as the analytical framework, videotaped data were collected through interviews with an experienced occupational therapist as well as direct observation of his care sessions with two women with Alzheimer’s disease in a Japanese nursing home, before they were qualitatively analysed. The result indicated that the therapist created three kinds of voices: the voice of the person’s self, the voices of the actual others, and the voices of the imagined others towards the person. The women actively responded to the voices, jointly created possible and positive selves, and were able to achieve therapeutic activities. As a polyphonic author, the therapist intentionally produced the voices for therapeutic engagement thereby giving appropriate meaning to the therapy, building relationships with others, and expressing the persons’ hope for the therapy, for others, and for themselves. article Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 7 (2018) H. 1 host institution his 7:1<35 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000210 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00000585/dej18070103.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000210.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000210 uri