Work, love, and play after brain injury
Prigatano, G.P.
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 53(5): 414-431
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-9284 PMID: 2477097 Document Number: 327703
Human self-awareness is not easily reducible to known principles of neurochemistry, neurophysiology, or neuropsychology. The author encourages a broader, less restrictive exploration of the nature of self-awareness as it relates to brain-injured patients. He elucidates the role of symbols in neuropsychological rehabilitation and suggests that work, love, and play are the primary symbols of normality that can reconcile brain-injured patients to their neurological condition.