Blossoming Into Disability Culture Following Traumatic Brain Injury: The Lotus Arising

ISBN-13: 9781032550046 / Twarda / 2024 / 224 str.

Dee Phyllis Genetti

Opis

This book tells the author’s story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what many Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors cannot, and details the many seemingly unrelatable symptoms of brain injury and subsequent PTSD.

Recenzje

“The most striking aspect of Dee’s recovery has been how far she has come from the days when she struggled to hold a two-minute NPR news clip in her memory to now completing her doctoral degree. Her singular will and determination have driven her recovery and reset our equations for what is possible after traumatic brain injury.”

-R. Richard Sanders, M.S.CCC, M.T.S. Senior Speech Language Pathology Clinical Specialist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown MA.

Spis treści

Introduction  Planting the Seed:  Where the Rubber Meets the Road  1. Setting the Context  Trek One: Budding Through Non-Ideal Conditions: Off-Road  Years 1 and 2: Changes in Self-Perception: Loss of My Old Self  2. Potholes - Diagnosis and Evolving symptoms  3. Stepping Stones: Speech Language Therapy  4. Lost in the Alleyway: Impact of Awareness  5. The Broken Path: Hallmarks of Communication  Trek Two: Rising Through Mud and Adversity: The Rocky Road  Years 3 and 4. Changes in Interpersonal Relationships: Reidentification  6. Not a Throughway: Intellect, Emotionality, Control of Behavior  7 Lost Trailways: Relationships and Loss of Identity  8 Finding a Footpath: Rehabilitation and My Life Coach  9. Unearthing Stepping Stones: Learning to Read and Write  10 Road to Recovery: Beginning of Self-Discovery  11. Road to Recovery: Beginning of Reidentification  12. Taking a Toll Road: Concurrent Mental Health Issues  13. Speed Bumps: Co-Morbidity with TBI and PTSD  14. Ruts in the Road: Reckoning with Anger  15. Breakdown Lane: Impatient Rehabilitation  Trek Three: Petals Opening One by One: Changing Lanes  Years 5 and 6: Changes in Philosophy of Life: Acceptance of New Life  16. At the Cross Roads: Spiritual Crisis  17. Staying the Course: Transcending My Story  18. In the Right Lane: Moving Forward  Trek Four: Ultimately Blossoming in the Sun:  Paving a Way  Years 7 and Beyond: Toward New Growth: Hope  19. Opening Passageways: Insight, Value and Growth  20. Trail Blazing onto a Steady Path: Blossoming into Disability Culture

O autorze

Dee Phyllis Genetti, PhD, LMHC, CTS is a psychologist with clinical expertise in trauma recovery. She is a civil rights advocate for equal rights/access and human dignity for persons with disabilities, a motivational speaker, published author, producer and host of Access Abilities with Dr. Dee and Marquis, and a member of the American Psychological Association.