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Psychological adaptation

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Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

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Abstract

The person with a recent, traumatic spinal cord injury experiences the trauma of one of the most devastating of all non-fatal injuries following which, the goal is not that of medical recovery but of adjustment or adaptation to circumstances that have been drastically changed.

The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites — day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil.... Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

(Jung, 1964)

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Hammell, K.W. (1995). Psychological adaptation. In: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. Therapy in Practice Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4451-1_8

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