Kesstan Blandin, PhD is a psychologist and psychosocial researcher specializing in dementia for the Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging, Dartmouth College, Lebanon NH. Dr. Blandin provides clinical lectures and training in dementia, consultations to families, and designs therapeutic research interventions. As a scholar and researcher, her interests are in structures of self and identity in consciousness as correlated with brain functions, body-mind relationships, humanistic-existential psychology, the unique experience of dementia grief, authenticity and individuation. She has published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and is co-author with Robert Santulli, M.D., of The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer’s Family. Dr. Blandin received her PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease;…
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