Posted by Judy Weiser, Administrator I was deeply moved by your very interesting posting -- at both professional and personal levels (both my father, and my father-in-law lived with this awful disease for many years before their deaths!)... I am absolutely fascinated by your description of your work and its results --- and I would like to know a lot more, either by corresponding with you back-channel (directly) or preferably, ON this Discussion Group Site page, so that others could benefit from our discussion... However, at this point, the first option is not possible, because when you posted your message, you forgot to fill in the blank for "your email" -- and so, unlike many of the messages here, where you can "click" on the person's name and find their email addres to use to write them directly, there is no such link with the appearance of your name. So, first of all, could you please send me your email address to: jweiser@phototherapy-centre.com and I will try to insert it back into your message, unless you don't want your message to have it there... Secondly, I would like to know more about this work you described -- and especially about the manual you are creating to let others learn how to do it too. When you say the "results have been exciting", I realize this probably wasn't a research thesis project, so you probably don't have any pre-test/post-test info like the statisticians love, but if you have any other people's observations in addition to your own, then I would think that this would be sufficient "evidence" to have this considered for publication in some Journal (Art Therapy, Nursing, Social Work, whatever) -- so that others could benefit from doing the same with their clients... finally, I want to make the point (which you already know, from the way you described "the interchange"!), that your work is a great example of what I keep trying to say about using PhotoTherapy (or Therapeutic Photography) techniques being as much in the *process of interacting with the images* as it is in the content of the photo-images themselves... thanks for a fascinating posting; please tell us more when you get a chance (and send me your email address, so that I may write you directly if I ever want to! If you want me to have it but don't want it posted on this site, then just say so when you send it) thanks, Judy (Weiser)
on 7/17/2004, 12:07 pm, in reply to "magazine photo collage therapy with Late stage Alzheimer's"
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Katya,