Tag: falls

Katherine Cuthbert – Keeping Balance: a Psychologist’s Experience of Chronic Illness and Disability

Published illness narratives are often those by public personalities or by established writers who happen to have encountered illness or disaster. However, there is a third class of narratives which do not have the commercial potential attractive to publishers, and which are therefore self-published. Each narrative of this type features the author’s need to have their voice heard.

Katherine Cuthbert was a psychology lecturer at Crewe and Alsager College of HE, who has self-published her narrative of her seventeen year experience of Multiple Sclerosis. She is an amateur writer, but her writings provide an authentic and individual account. In particular … Read more...

Robert McCrum – Every Third Thought

Falls are common among the elderly, but rare are well-written accounts describing the shock and loss of confidence that result, and still rarer those that articulate the intimations of mortality that follow afterwards. Robert McCrum wrote a moving memoir about his stroke when he was 42, My Year Off, and he has now followed that in his early 60s with a searching, challenging, and ultimately moving discussion about his own intimations of mortality.

The fall that sparks this discussion is described in chapter 2, and in the following chapters there are useful descriptions of the way our culture worships … Read more...