Inside Coma: A New View of Awareness, Healing, and Hope

by Morin, Pierre

• ISBN13: 9780313383892
• ISBN10: 0313383898
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: PRAEGER AGENCY ACCOUNT

Summary

Exciting scientific discoveries are validating what coma therapists Dr. Pierre Morin and Dr. Gary Reiss have been teaching for years: that coma patients' awareness is both detailed and complex, and their chances of significant recovery is much greater than previously thought. Inside Coma: A New View of Awareness, Healing, and Hope describes practical, body-centered ways of communicating with coma patients, showing family members and caregivers how to enter the patient's inner world of experience to engage their will and power to heal.Advocating for a new, ethical sensitivity that gives patients in remote and comatose states a right to exist, the authors explain the newest developments in the cutting-edge treatment of coma patients through a mind-body approach to medicine and healing, placing these developments in the context of the changing field of consciousness studies. They teach, challenge, and inspire readers to a new level of understanding, compassion, and intervention, offering basic tools with which health-care professionals and family members alike can begin this remarkably effective work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Recovery and the Process-Oriented Approach	p. 1
The Myth of Vegetation: Mind-Body Beliefs and Coma Work	p. 45
The Myth of Health and Normality	p. 69
The Mystery of Relationship in Coma Care and Recovery	p. 101
The Spirit of Healing: Accessing the Healer in You and Your Client	p. 133
Using Your Own Altered States to Benefit the Person in Coma	p. 147
Preventing Burnout	p. 159
Coma as Our Teacher	p. 169
Relating to the Hospital, Health Care Team, and Family	p. 179
Post-Coma Work	p. 193
The Future of Coma Work	p. 205
Appendix: Glossary and Expanded Definitions	p. 221
Notes	p. 229
Annotated Bibliography and Coma Work Resources	p. 237
Index	p. 245
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