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Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark : Reconstructing Life After Brain Injury by Prof. Ruthann Knechel Johansen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that 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 ''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. Through this experience of utter disintegration, Johansen comes to realize that self

Who reads Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark : Reconstructing Life After Brain Injury?

Author

Prof. Ruthann Knechel Johansen

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520231146

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Memoir, Anthropology

Rating

4.05 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14