Journal article
"They brought you back to the fact you're not the same": Sense of self after traumatic brain injury
- Abstract:
- This paper considers contexts following traumatic brain injury, exploring what may be at stake when dominant expectations predict a ‘lost’ or ‘broken’ self. I explore stories co-constructed with one young man and his mother to illustrate their personal and intersubjective understandings of identity, at times conflicting, within family interactions and when encountering normative practices of neurorehabilitation clinicians. The ower relations portrayed confront this man’s narrative attempts to align his present and pre-injury self, including standard assessments delineating change, administered by healthcare professionals. I consider a need for greater attention to interaction-generated disruption to sense of self, wthin contemporary conceptualisations of ‘person-centred care’.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1057/s41286-017-0036-8
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- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Journal:
- Subjectivity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 358–373
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-08-13
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1755-635X
- ISSN:
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1755-6341
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pubs:724552
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pubs:724552
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724552
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2017-08-30
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- Macmillan Publishers Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Palgrave Macmillan UK at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-017-0036-8
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