[Unedited] Alan Dienstag with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 19 March 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Alan Dienstag is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City and Westchester County. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Alan Dienstag — Alzheimer’s and the Spiritual Terrain of Memory.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	This is on being's Unheard Cut. I'm Chris DeTippet. You're listening to my unedited conversation
0:05.7	with psychologist Alan Dean Steck. Download the MP3 of our produced show at on being.org.
0:14.0	Do you have any questions for me before we start?
0:18.9	You know, in talking with... Okay, now I'm going to start fussing.
0:24.4	So can I be a little less loud to myself?
0:29.2	Okay, because I feel like...
0:30.4	I'm going in with the adjuster.
0:32.3	All right. Sorry. Sorry about that.
0:34.0	No, no, no, no, we have to get this prepared.
0:36.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like I'm actually having a real conversation, but I'm getting too much
0:42.8	too much of myself. So you know how that is.
0:45.6	Yeah, I do.
0:46.3	I guess...
0:51.2	One question that I have is that Rob gave me the sense that you all were...
0:59.8	I don't know, struggling was too strong a word, but you know, you were wrestling a little bit with
1:04.2	how to approach the subject. And I'm just, I guess I'm still curious about that.
1:12.2	And I'm curious about where you arrived or if you arrived or and how this fits into that,
1:19.4	you know, just maybe a little bit of a larger context, you know.
1:23.1	Um, it's just, I think that we, it's a subject we've been talking about for a while.
1:29.6	And I don't know if you are aware of this, but I, I had a pretty formative experience when I was
1:35.5	studying theology of working as a chaplain on a, the Alzheimer's floor of a home and hospital for
1:41.0	the elderly. Oh, no, no. Yeah. And I've written a little bit about that and it's, uh,
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