Abstract
Abstract A humanistic sensibility in contemporary geropsychology is thematized and encouraged. Dementia, in which the brain loses its world‐gathering and functional capacities, is described phenomenologically as a disintegration of being‐in‐the‐world. The humanistic perspective encourages the discipline to approach the question of diagnosis holistically, especially with regard to an exploration of the context and meaning of features such as depression and delusions. Phenomenological accounts of depression and delusions in dementia are offered as a corrective to humanistic psychology's traditional concern with the client's subjective experience. The clinical interview as a type of conversation is described; appropriate self‐disclosure and feedback are emphasized. Three clinical vignettes are presented.
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