The Resource Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark : reconstructing life after brain injury, Ruthann Knechel Johansen
Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark : reconstructing life after brain injury, Ruthann Knechel Johansen
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- Summary
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- "Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, Erik's own efforts, and those of everyone who helps bring him from deep coma to new life make up a moving and inspiring story for us all, one that invites us to reconsider the very nature of a "self" and selfhood." "Ruthann Knechel Johansen, who teaches literature and narrative theory, is a particularly eloquent witness to the silent space in which her son, confronted with life-shattering injury and surrounded by conflicting narratives about his viability, is somehow reborn. She describes the time of crisis and medical intervention as an hour-by-hour struggle to communicate with the medical world on the one hand and the everyday world of family and friends on the other. None of them knows how much, or even whether, they can communicate with the wounded child who is lost from himself and everything he knew. From the first desperate threshold to others equally challenging, we follow as Johansen shares and records the long ordeal of rebirth. Through this experience of utter disintegration, she comes to realize that self-identity is molded and sustained by stories."
- "As Erik regains movement and consciousness, his parents, younger sister, doctors, therapists, educators, and friends all contribute to a web of language and narrative that gradually enables his body, mind, and feelings to make sense of their reacquired functions. Like those who know and love him, the young man feels intense grief and anger for the loss of the self he was before the accident, yet he is the first to see continuity where they see only change. The story is breathtaking, because we become involved in the pain and suspense and faith that accompany every birth. Medical and rehabilitation professionals, social workers, psychotherapists, students of narrative, and anyone who has faced life's trauma will find hope in this meditation on selfhood: out of the shambles of profound brain injury and coma can arise fruitful lives and deepened relationships."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 236 pages
- Contents
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- The impact of vulnerability
- waiting in crisis
- uncertain deliveries
- becoming again
- the scattered self
- improvisational selves
- accepting vulnerability
- crossing the threshold
- Isbn
- 9780520231146
- Label
- Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark : reconstructing life after brain injury
- Title
- Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark
- Title remainder
- reconstructing life after brain injury
- Statement of responsibility
- Ruthann Knechel Johansen
- Subject
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- Bibliotherapy
- Bibliotherapy -- Popular Works
- Biography
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients -- Biography
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Family relationships
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Family relationships
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Rehabilitation
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Rehabilitation
- Brain Injuries -- rehabilitation. -- Popular Works
- Gezinsrelaties
- Health
- Hersenbeschadiging
- Bibliotherapy
- Johansen, Erik, 1969-
- Johansen, Erik, 1969- -- Family
- Johansen, Erik, 1969- -- Health
- Love stories
- Narrative therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent and child. -- Popular Works
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Verhalen
- Johansen, Erik, 1969-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, Erik's own efforts, and those of everyone who helps bring him from deep coma to new life make up a moving and inspiring story for us all, one that invites us to reconsider the very nature of a "self" and selfhood." "Ruthann Knechel Johansen, who teaches literature and narrative theory, is a particularly eloquent witness to the silent space in which her son, confronted with life-shattering injury and surrounded by conflicting narratives about his viability, is somehow reborn. She describes the time of crisis and medical intervention as an hour-by-hour struggle to communicate with the medical world on the one hand and the everyday world of family and friends on the other. None of them knows how much, or even whether, they can communicate with the wounded child who is lost from himself and everything he knew. From the first desperate threshold to others equally challenging, we follow as Johansen shares and records the long ordeal of rebirth. Through this experience of utter disintegration, she comes to realize that self-identity is molded and sustained by stories."
- "As Erik regains movement and consciousness, his parents, younger sister, doctors, therapists, educators, and friends all contribute to a web of language and narrative that gradually enables his body, mind, and feelings to make sense of their reacquired functions. Like those who know and love him, the young man feels intense grief and anger for the loss of the self he was before the accident, yet he is the first to see continuity where they see only change. The story is breathtaking, because we become involved in the pain and suspense and faith that accompany every birth. Medical and rehabilitation professionals, social workers, psychotherapists, students of narrative, and anyone who has faced life's trauma will find hope in this meditation on selfhood: out of the shambles of profound brain injury and coma can arise fruitful lives and deepened relationships."--Jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johansen, Ruthann Knechel
- Dewey number
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- 362.1/97481044/092
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RJ496.B7
- LC item number
- J65 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WS340 J63 2002
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Johansen, Erik
- Johansen, Erik
- Johansen, Erik
- Johansen, Erik
- Brain
- Brain
- Brain
- Bibliotherapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Bibliotherapy
- Brain
- Brain
- Brain
- Health
- Narrative therapy
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Hersenbeschadiging
- Gezinsrelaties
- Verhalen
- Brain Injuries
- Bibliotherapy
- Parent and child.
- Label
- Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark : reconstructing life after brain injury, Ruthann Knechel Johansen
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The impact of vulnerability -- waiting in crisis -- uncertain deliveries -- becoming again -- the scattered self -- improvisational selves -- accepting vulnerability -- crossing the threshold
- Control code
- ocm45325220
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 236 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520231146
- Lccn
- 2001027681
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o45325220
- (OCoLC)45325220
- Label
- Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark : reconstructing life after brain injury, Ruthann Knechel Johansen
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The impact of vulnerability -- waiting in crisis -- uncertain deliveries -- becoming again -- the scattered self -- improvisational selves -- accepting vulnerability -- crossing the threshold
- Control code
- ocm45325220
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 236 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520231146
- Lccn
- 2001027681
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o45325220
- (OCoLC)45325220
Subject
- Bibliotherapy
- Bibliotherapy -- Popular Works
- Biography
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients -- Biography
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Family relationships
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Family relationships
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Rehabilitation
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries | Patients | Rehabilitation
- Brain Injuries -- rehabilitation. -- Popular Works
- Gezinsrelaties
- Health
- Hersenbeschadiging
- Bibliotherapy
- Johansen, Erik, 1969-
- Johansen, Erik, 1969- -- Family
- Johansen, Erik, 1969- -- Health
- Love stories
- Narrative therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent and child. -- Popular Works
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Verhalen
- Johansen, Erik, 1969-
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