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Identity Theft - Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke (Paperback)
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Identity Theft - Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke (Paperback)
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List price R480
Loot Price R407
Discovery Miles 4 070
You Save R73 (15%)
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Debra Meyerson, a Stanford University professor, shares her
emotionally powerful journey to rebuild her identity and redefine
herself after suffering a debilitating stroke. She effectively
blends her expertise about personal identity with her own journey
and that of other survivors into a story that can help and inspire
anyone robbed of capabilities that challenge their sense of self
following injury. In 2010, Debra Meyerson suffered a severe stroke
in which she lost all speech and was paralyzed on her right side.
Identity Theft centers on Debra's experience: her stroke, her
extraordinary efforts to recover, and her journey to redefine
herself. She draws on her skills as a social scientist and
conversations with dozens of fellow survivors , family members,
friends, colleagues, therapists and doctors to paint a new picture
of the emotional journey through the identity-based challenges born
from stroke and other accidents and illnesses that rob people of
important capabilities. She shares amazing personal stories and
uses them to illustrate lessons we can all learn from. Who are you
after a stroke? How do you grieve the loss of you? Who do you
become during your recovery? This is not a how-to book for
recovery, nor will it tell you what you'll experience or how you
should deal with the loss of ability, but it's a book full of hope
for stroke survivors. It gives them and their support network a
broad picture of what might lie ahead. And it explores some
critical questions that, in the more prevalent focus on physical
recovery, are all too often overlooked in the effort to help people
who have lost capabilities from stroke or otherwise: What is really
important to me? How do I fit in? Who am I now? How do I define
myself in the face of my more limited abilities?
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