As life expectancy increases, so does the incidence of the dementias and Alzheimer’s disease. When a friend or relative loses their memory, it is distressing both for them and their carers. The challenge is to find the symbolic meaning, not only in terms of the archetype, but also of the individual sufferer’s atypical behaviour. In this event, reflections will be made on Jung’s insights into the nature of consciousness, old age, and death, utilising both extracts from his correspondence and clinical examples as evidence of the teleological aspect of some of the apparently mindless symptoms of the dementias.
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