Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates
The Interactive Organization of “Insight”: Clinical Interviews with Frontotemporal Dementia Patients
Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates
Netta Avineri
UCLA
Description
This chapter considers how clinicians attempt to locate insight (or its loss) through question design during medical interactions and how patients do or do not demonstrate insight through their responses. Through a detailed analysis of one doctor-patient interaction, which highlights the complex interactional manifestations of insight, this chapter will consider the fact that the current clinical definition for “early loss of insight” may be an insufficient diagnostic criterion.