A Different Perspective After Brain Injury

A Tilted Point of View

Christopher Yeoh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351678148
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Geschichte & Theorie in der Psychologie

Whilst preparing for his travel adventures into a world he had yet to explore, Christopher Yeoh was involved in a road traffic accident and experienced something few others would be "privileged" to witness. Eight days in a coma, more than a year in and out of hospital and a gradual re-introduction to the world of work.

A Different Perspective After Brain Injury: A Tilted Point of View is written entirely by the survivor, providing an unusually introspective and critical personal account of life following a serious blow to the head. It charts the initial insult, early rehabilitation, development of understanding, the return of emotion, moments of triumph and regression into depression, the exercise of reframing how a brain injury is perceived and a return to work. It also describes the mental adjustments of awareness and acceptance alongside the physical recovery process.

Readily accessible to the general public, this book will also be of particular interest to professionals involved in the care of people who have had significant brain injuries, brain injury survivors, their families and friends and also those who fund and organise health and social care. This unique author account will provide a degree of understanding of what living with a hidden disability is really like.

Index

abstract 39, 40; see also treatment

acceptance 36–7, 39–40, 74, 80, 96–7, 110, 119; full acceptance 36, 37, 39, 40, 110, 119; no acceptance 36; partial acceptance 36, 37

accepted 86; see also acceptance

amnesia 8, 13; anterograde 8; post-traumatic 8; retrograde 8

appearance 34, 47

assessment 86–7, 93, 96, 104, 128

awareness 29, 34–6, 82–3, 103; see also metacognition

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science 93

child 18–20, 22, 40, 52, 55

childhood 19; see also child

childish 39, 57–8; see also child

childishly 37; see also child

Cognitive Reserve: Theory and Applications 129

coma 4–6, 8

communication 31; see also speech and language therapy

comprehension 35, 54; see also understanding

Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury 74

cycling 3, 11–12

different perspective 30, 57

different point of view see different perspective

dignity 19, 48

distractibility 94

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 74

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 95

dream 108, 112, 122

dress 47–9

Eats, Shoots and Leaves 99

emotion 22, 34, 37–9, 42, 44, 78, 86, 95; anger 25, 32, 43–5, 66, 83, 99, 100; depression 32, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Epigraph
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Series foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• The start of the (almost) end
• The most exciting day of my life
• My boring history
• The Wellington hospital
• A second childhood
• The wheelchair and me
• Standing on two feet
• Understanding and feeling
• The Bleakness
• Clothes make the man
• A birthday in hospital
• A tilted point of view
• The assault on self
• End of an era
• The National Health Service
• The death of ambition
• Other people’s stories
• The Oliver Zangwill Centre
• The idealism of youth
• The land of OZ
• Perfectionism
• The rainbow
• The importance of semantics
• The traumatic brain 
injury fraternity
• A return to the institution
• Writing
• Excuses and choices
• A constructive pastime
• An (almost) new start
• Epilogue
• A little bit about the author
• Index