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Ruth Codier Resch

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Born
Washington, D.C.
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Memoir, Art, Psychology

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Dr Oliver Sacks, Jean-Dominique Bauby, ...more

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March 2013


There are my stories losing language in a stroke, then brain trauma. I am a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, baby observer, bird watcher. My sense of self survived using these skills to reflect on walking through a wilderness without road signs. I found languages outside of word language that took me to whole new worlds.

To speak at all was to locate the fewest words to express anything, I wanted to keep this spare language to convey the unimaginable. Digging deep, then deeper again, I rooted into memory to illuminate for those who can't imagine the loss of language. And I wanted to speak for those thousands who have lost language and can't ever tell you how it is....

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