1st Edition
Music and the Experience of Memory Loss Understanding Dementia as a Form of Neurodiversity
By Samantha Harrold
Copyright 2026
174 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is a creative and critical exploration of the memory loss experience. Drawing on in-depth case studies based on primary research, interviews, approaches from music therapy, and theory from Derrida, Malabou, and Royle, it explores how we might better support people living with memory loss.
Telling the story of an interpretative phenomenological analysis investigation, this innovative... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Sacks, Mitchell, and the question of value
3. Five strange stories
4. The uncanny, the archive and the plastic brain
5. An alternate way of being and implications for future practice
Biography
Samantha Harrold is a writer, composer, musician, teacher, and medical humanities researcher. Her doctorate on the experience of memory loss is from the University of Sussex, UK.
