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1. Introduction
2. Brain injury shatters lives
3. In this presentation
4. Before the accident
5. The accident
6. Unfortunately I was not alone!
7. Upside down world
8. Tunnel of trauma
9. Rehab
10. Understanding changes in life
11. Magic medicine
12. Being like a child again
13. The hate snake
14. Be your own best friend
15. The revenge snake
16. Hatred stops you from moving forward
17. The mirage snake
18. Honesty
19. Doing Up Buttons
20. Jack and Jill
21. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
22. Reconnecting head, body and life
23. Brain injury is complicated
24. My challenge
25. Interviewing people with brain injury
26. Interviewing in a relaxed and friendly environment
27. Learning and thinking
28. Armor of brain injured people
29. Fantail doves
30. 'Keys to the Cage'
31. Identifying difficulties
32. Identifying feelings
33. Identifying different keys
34. IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis)
35. IPA reveals who's at the heart of brain injury
36. IPA and negative feelings
37. IPA and positive feelings
38. Rehabilitation is a bridge
39. Rehabilitation: bad experiences
40. Professionals can help us feel better
41. Comments from ABI participants
42. Comments from brain injury professionals
43. 'Keys to The ABI Cage'
44. Brain injury uproots lives
45. Dealing with people who went through brain injury
46. Helping people who went through brain injury
47. Help other possibilities emerge
48. References

Topics Covered

• Brain injury shatters bodies, brains, spirits, lives, dreams and hope
• Like being lost or shipwrecked, people with brain injury are like strangers in a strange land
• With loss of memory and understanding, they're bewildered, humiliated, frustrated, in denial, unable to trust themselves, other people or the world around them. I know. I have brain injury
• But people with brain injury can reflect, gain insight and understanding and then help themselves feel and fare better

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Series:

• Neurotrauma

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Durham, C. (2020, October 12). Acquiring better insight into what it's like to have acquired brain injury [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/2118/.
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Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2011
• Reviewed on October 12, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Christine Durham has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.