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Dasha Kiper

Dasha Kiper has an MA in clinical psychology from Columbia University. She has worked with dementia patients and caregivers, and currently leads caregiving groups for the New York City chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She is writing a book on the philosophical issues associated with cognitive decline.

Hope Is the Enemy

Hope Is the Enemy

Caring for a patient suffering from dementia means coming to terms with the frustrating paradoxes of memory and language

by Dasha Kiper | Monday, September 07, 2015
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A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”