Inside Coma: A New View of Awareness, Healing, and Hope
• Offers the latest medical, psychological, and mind-body approaches to coma in a single source• Proposes new responses to the age-old questions of how we define healing, consciousness, and illness, presenting both the science and the often-miraculous stories that demonstrate the potential of these new directions• Provides family members and caregivers with practical ways to help loves ones in a comatose state• Empowers families to interact and work with medical systems when a loved one is in a hospital• Heartwarming stories that engender genuine hope for professionals and families dealing with this most difficult area of treatment• More than 20 relevant exercises that help the reader to understand the coma state and how to be most useful to the person in this state• An appendix that expands on scientific and philosophical concepts introduced in the book and includes reference links• A glossary of basic terms of process-oriented coma work and related medical terms• A bibliography"Recommended. Medical and allied health professionals; upper-division undergraduates through researchers."-Choice