Steven R Sabat
Title
Professor
Department
Department of Psychology
Publications
Publications
Books
- Hughes, J.C., Louw, S.J., and Sabat, S.R. (Eds.). Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Sabat, S.R. The Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease: Life Through a Tangled Veil. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Articles in journals
- Sabat, S.R., Johnson, A., Swarbrick, C., and Keady, J. "The ‘demented other’ or simply ‘a person’? Extending the philosophical discourse of Ursula Naue and Thilo Kroll through an appreciation of the situated self." Nursing Philosophy 12 (2012): 282-292.
- Sabat, S. R. "A bio-psycho-social model enhances young adults’ understanding of and beliefs about people with Alzheimer’s disease: A case study." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 11 (2012): 95-112.
- De Medeiros, K, Saunders, P.A., and Sabat, S.R. "Friendships and the social environments of people with dementia: Introduction to the Special Issue." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice (2012): 1-18.
- Sabat, S.R. and Lee, J.M. "Relatedness among people diagnosed with dementia: social cognition and the possibility of friendship." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice (2012): 311-323.
- Sabat, S. R. "Flourishing of the self while caring for a person with dementia: A case study of education, counseling, and psychosocial support via email." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 10.1 (2011): 81-97.
- Sabat, S. R. "Stern words about the mind-brain problem: Keeping the whole person in mind." New Ideas in Psychology 28 (2010): 168-174.
- Sabat, S.R. and Gladstone, C.M. "What intact social cognition and social behavior reveal about cognition in the moderate stage of Alzheimer’s disease: A case study." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 9.1 (2010): 61-78.
- Sabat, S. R. "Dementia in low and middle income countries: A tidal wave on the horizon." The Lancet 374.9704 (2009): 1805-1806.
- Harré, R., Pilkerton-Cairnie, T., Moghaddam, F.M., Rothbart, D. & Sabat, S.R.. "Recent advances in positioning theory." Theory and Psychology 19 (2009): 5-31.
- Sabat, S. R. "Existential phenomenology and the quality of life of carers and care." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 8.2 (2009): 163-166.
- Sabat, S.R. "Subjectivity, the brain, life narratives and the ethical treatment of persons with Alzheimer’s disease." The American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience 9.9 (2009): 23-25.
- Scholl, J.M. and Sabat, S.R. "Stereotypes, stereotype threat and ageing: Implications for the understanding and treatment of people with Alzheimer’s disease." Ageing and Society 28.1 (2008): 103-130.
- Sabat, S.R. "Tikkun Olam and people with Alzheimer’s disease: Emphasizing personhood, not patienthood." Journal on Jewish Aging 2.1 (2008): 1-9.
- Sabat, S.R.. "Mild cognitive impairment: What’s in a name?." Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 13.1 (2006): 13-20.
- Sabat, S.R. "Implicit memory and people with Alzheimer’s disease: Implications for caregiving." American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias 21.1 (2006): 11-14.
- Sabat, S.R. "Capacity for decision-making in Alzheimer’s disease: selfhood, positioning and semiotic persons." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 39 (2005): 1030-1035.
- Sabat, S.R. "Managing psychosocial aspects of Alzheimer’s disease." Directions in Psychiatry 24 (2004): 59-67.
- Sabat, S.R., Napolitano, L., and Fath, H. "Barriers to the construction of a valued social identity: A case study of Alzheimer’s disease." American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias 19.3 (2004): 177-185.
- Sabat, S.R. "Some potential benefits of creating research partnerships with people with Alzheimer’s disease." Research Policy and Planning 21.2 (2003): 5-12.
- Sabat, S.R. "Surviving manifestations of selfhood in Alzheimer’s disease: A case study." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 1 (2002): 25-36.
- Sabat, S.R. "Epistemological issues in the study of insight in people with Alzheimer’s disease." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 1 (2002): 279-293.
- Sabat, S.R. "Time past, time present, time future: The Alzheimer’s disease sufferer as Stern’s ’Unitas Multiplex’." Theory and Psychology 10 (2000): 787-800.
- Sabat, S.R., Fath, H., Moghaddam, F.M., and Harré, R. "The maintenance of self-esteem: Lessons from the culture of Alzheimer’s sufferers." Culture and Psychology 5 (1999): 5-31.
- Temple, V., Sabat, S.R., and Kroger, R. "Intact use of politeness strategies in the discourse of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers." Language and Communication 19.2 (1999): 163-180.
- Sabat, S.R. and Collins, M. "Intact social, cognitive ability, and selfhood: A case study of Alzheimer’s disease." American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 14 (1999): 11-19.
- Sabat, S.R. "Voices of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers: A call for treatment based on personhood." The Journal of Clinical Ethics 9.1 (1998): 38-51.
- Sabat, S.R. and Cagigas, X.E. "Extralinguistic communication compensates for the loss of verbal fluency: A case study of Alzheimer’s disease." Language and Communication 17 (1997): 341-351.
- Sabat, S.R. and Harré, R. "The Alzheimer’s disease sufferer as a semiotic subject." Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (1994): 145-160.
- Sabat, S.R. "Excess disability and malignant social psychology: A case study of Alzheimer’s disease." Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 4 (1994): 157-166.
- Sabat, S.R. "Language function in Alzheimer’s disease: A critical review of selected literature." Language and Communication 14 (1994): 331-351.
- Sabat, S.R. "Recognizing and working with remaining abilities: Toward improving the care of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers." The American Journal of Alzheimer’s Care and Related Disorders and Research 9 (1994): 8-16.
- Sabat, S.R. and Harré, R. "The construction and deconstruction of self in Alzheimer’s disease." Ageing and Society 12 (1992): 443-461.
- Sabat, S.R. "Turn-taking, turn-giving, and Alzheimer’s disease: A case study of conversation." Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics 2 (1991): 161-175.
- Sabat, S.R. "Facilitating conversation via indirect repair: A case study of Alzheimer’s disease." Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics 2 (1991): 284-296.
- N. J. Finkel and S.R. Sabat. "Split-brain madness: An insanity defense waiting to happen." Law and Human Behavior 8 (1984): 225-252.
- Sabat, S.R., Wiggs, C.L., and Pinizzotto, A.J. "Alzheimer’s disease: Clinical vs. Observational studies of cognitive function." Journal of Experimental and Clinical Gerontology 4 (1984): 337-359.
- Sabat, S.R. "Isolated words: A reply to Diamond." American Psychologist 35 (1980): 765-766.
- Sabat, S.R. "Selective attention, channel capacity, and the average evoked response in human subjects." Neuropsychologia 17 (1979): 103-106.
- Sabat, S.R. " Wundt’s physiological psychology in retrospect." American Psychologist 34 (1979): 635-638.
- Sabat, S.R. " Wundt’s physiological psychology in retrospect." American Psychologist 34 (1979): 635-638.
- Sabat, S.R. "Attention, preparation, and statistical aspects of cortical evoked potentials. ." Neuropsychologia 16 (1978): 563-570.
- Sabat, S.R. "Selective attention, cortical evoked responses and brain function in human subjects." Biological Psychology 7 (1978): 175-201.
- Robinson, D.N. and Sabat, S.R. "Neuroelectric aspects of information processing by the brain." Neuropsychologia 15 (1977): 625-641.
- Robinson, D.N. and Sabat, S.R. "Elimination of auditory evoked responses during auditory shadowing." Physiological Psychology, 3 (1975): 26-28.
Articles in books
- Sabat, S.R. "Disorders and Treatments." Psychology for the Third Millenium. Ed. R. Harré & F.M. Moghaddam. London: Sage (in press), 2012.
- Sabat, S.R. "Maintaining the self in dementia." Supportive Care for the Person with Dementia. Ed. J.C. Hughes, M. Lloyd-Williams, & G.A. Sachs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010: 227-234
- Sabat, S.R. "Pre-positioning, malignant positioning, and the disempowering loss of privileges endured by people with Alzheimer’s disease." Words of Conflict, Words of War: A Positioning Theory Analysis of Language and Conflict in Political Processes. Ed. F.M. Moghaddam & R. Harré. : Praeger, 2010: 89-104
- Sabat, S.R. "A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach to Dementia." Excellence in Dementia Care: Research into Practice. Ed. M.Downs and B. Bowers. New York: Open University Press/McGraw Hill, 2008: 70-84
- Sabat, S. R. "Positioning and Conflict Involving a Person with Dementia: A Case Study." Global Conflict Resolution Through Positioning Theory. Ed. F.M. Moghaddam, R. Harré, & N. Lee. New York: Springer, 2008: 81-93
- Hughes, J.C. and Sabat, S.R. "The advance directive conjuring trick and the person with dementia." Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry. Ed. G. Widdershoven, T. Hope, L. van der Scheer, and J. McMillan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006: 123-140
- Sabat, S.R. "Mind, meaning, and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning." Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person. Ed. J.C. Hughes, S. Louw, and S.R. Sabat. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006: 287-302
- Hughes, J.C., Louw, S.J., and Sabat, S.R. "Seeing Whole." Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person. Ed. J.C. Hughes, S. Louw, and S.R. Sabat. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006: 1-39
- Sabat, S.R. "The Self in Dementia." The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Ed. : M. Johnson, V. Bengtson, and P. Coleman. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005: 332-337
- Sabat, S.R. "Selfhood and Alzheimer’s Disease." The Person with Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathways to Understanding the Experience. Ed. P.B. Harris. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003: 88-111
- Sabat, S.R. "Malignant positioning and the predicament of the person with Alzheimer’s disease." The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts. Ed. F.M. Moghaddam and R. Harré . Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 2003: 85-98
- Sabat, S.R. and Harré, R. "Grammar and the Brain." Pathology and the Postmodern. Ed. D. Fee. London: Sage, 2000: 231-247
- Sabat, S.R. and Harré, R. "Positioning and the recovery of social identity." Positioning Theory: Moral Contexts of Intentional Action. Ed. L. van Langenhove and R. Harré . Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, 1999: 87-101
- Sabat, S.R. "Facilitating conversation with an Alzheimer’s disease sufferer through the use of indirect repair." Language and Communication in Old Age: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. H. Hamilton . : Garland Press, 1999: 115-131
- Sabat, S.R. "The deconstruction of self in Alzheimer’s disease: A constructionist view." Life and Learning: Proceedings of the Third University Faculty for Life Conference. Ed. Koterski, J.W. Washington, D.C.: Univ. Faculty for Life, 1993: 151-176
- Sabat, S.R. "Biological Foundations and Correlates." Sourcebook in General Psychology. Ed. Robinson, D.N., et al.. New York: McGraw Hill, 1992.
- Robinson, D.N. and Sabat, S.R. "Sensory Psychopharmacology." Current Developments in Psychopharmacology, Vol. 2. Ed. Essman, W.B. And Valzelli, L. New York: Halstead Press, 1975.
Edited books
- Hughes, J.C., Louw, S.J., and Sabat, S.R, ed. Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Book reviews
- Sabat, S.R. "Review of Dementia Care." Aging and Mental Health 8 (2004): 275.
- Sabat, S.R. "Review of Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer’s Disease." Theoretical Medicine 25 (2004): 439-442.
- Sabat, S.R. "Review of Enhancing the Quality of Life in Advanced Dementia." Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 1 (2002): 400-401.
- Sabat, S.R. "The integrated mind." Philosophical Psychology 1 (1980): 72-75.