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Forewords and Preface iii Foreword Art as Brain Recovery Andrea Gellin Shindler Founder Executive Director, Foundation for Human Potential, Chicago, IL. Having learned of Ruth Resch’s extraordinary story and work from Dr. Martha Taylor Sarno, I was immediately taken by her remarkable artwork, in the face of stroke-related, brain damage. Ruth Resch was and is a fighter, determined to communicate in the best way possible, showing that artistic expression is her mode. Having had experience with a young female patient, years ago, who had had a similar experience, I developed the Foundation for Human Potential to share the influence of alternative means of communication, in so doing, advocating strongly for the arts/artistic expression—a most positive channel for rehabilitation. Books from prominent authors which have developed to support the notion that positive rehabilitation is an ongoing process, include: Begley, S. Train Your Brain, Change Your Mind; Schwartz, M., Begley, S. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force; Doidge, N. The Brain the Changes Itself; LeDoux, J. The Emotional Brain; Caplan, L. Striking Back at Stroke. Bravo to Ruth Resch for teaching the world that rehabilitation can be an idiosyncratic development, to which close attention must be paid. Positive options for rehabilitation will, thereby, ensue for the betterment of rehabilitation for all individuals. www.fhponline.org
iv Ruth Codier Resch Without Utterance: Foreword Perspectives on Identity and Self Howard B. Levine, M.D. Psychoanalyst and Faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination,’” Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote . Infants come into the world ready and equipped for language. And words, those essential elements that help make up a language, become markers and the building blocks of who we are… to ourselves, to others. There is something about language, our capacity for words, which forms and reflects the in-born, in-built grammar of our being, the scaffolding of our self. Language emerges naturally from our earliest and most cherished relationships - what will become and we will call our mother tongue. It orders our universe and constructs our very selves and our places within that universe. In the privacy of our own minds, regardless of how much schooling we may have, we are, each of us, spinners of narrative, weavers of words, bards of our own existence. We are creating, each in our own personal and particular way, our sense of self and our world, and then created in the minds of others. The binding power of words are the notes arising from the keyboard of our imagination. But what if that instrument is damaged -- keys missing, hollow, or ringing false? Worse yet, what if strings are torn, frame shattered, the very scaffolding gone wrong, gone very wrong? Aphasia! Absence of language. What if the vital link is sundered between inside and outside, sensation and meaning, emotion and intellect, self and other? The loss of self, of competence of community, the sense of shame and isolation, may be unbearable.
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