TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Shooting at the Sun God Apollo'
T2 - The Apollonian-Dionysian Balance of the TimeSlips Storytelling Project
AU - George, Daniel R.
PY - 2013/9/1
Y1 - 2013/9/1
N2 - In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche celebrated the dueling forces of reason and emotion as personified by the ancient Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. A subtle Apollonian-Dionysian balance can be observed in TimeSlips, a group-based creative storytelling activity developed in the 1990s and increasingly used in dementia care settings worldwide. This article explains how the Apollonion-Dionysian aspects of TimeSlips are beneficial not only for persons with dementia, but also for their carers. Narrative data from medical students at Penn State College of Medicine who participated in TimeSlips at a local retirement community are shared.
AB - In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche celebrated the dueling forces of reason and emotion as personified by the ancient Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. A subtle Apollonian-Dionysian balance can be observed in TimeSlips, a group-based creative storytelling activity developed in the 1990s and increasingly used in dementia care settings worldwide. This article explains how the Apollonion-Dionysian aspects of TimeSlips are beneficial not only for persons with dementia, but also for their carers. Narrative data from medical students at Penn State College of Medicine who participated in TimeSlips at a local retirement community are shared.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10912-013-9232-x
DO - 10.1007/s10912-013-9232-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 23722245
AN - SCOPUS:84881589595
SN - 1041-3545
VL - 34
SP - 399
EP - 403
JO - Journal of Medical Humanities
JF - Journal of Medical Humanities
IS - 3
ER -
