In the course of living our lives, we develop innate trust in our interpretation of personal sense data. We maintain unreserved confidence in our ability to correctly interpret the minutiae of our experience. This development is guided by family, by social relations, by our cultural milieu, and through formal learning. We call this learned capacity “maturation” and accept it as a mark of adulthood.
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Category Archives: Insight
Awareness of Deficit
One of the problems with brain injury is that the victim lacks understanding of the fact of their injury. This is a key point in both the Self Therapy book and in Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury : Clinical and Theoretical Issues.
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The Experiment
For the past five days I have been running an experiment. The experimental objective was to determine if I am capable of a return to work. In place of an actual employer, I made use of my volunteer job as a simulacra.
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