Elise Rosenhaupt 
Climbing Back 

After her son, a Harvard sophomore, suffers a potentially devastating brain injury, Elise Rosenhaupt and her family find their orderly world turned upside down. Climbing Back chronicles their extraordinary, transformative journey of realignment and recovery-illuminating mysteries and miracles large and small, laughter’s restorative power, and the natural world’s vital relationship to healing. "In a memoir that is both profound and thorough, Elise Rosenhaupt found the courage and the discipline to look this event straight in its horrible eye, and to take notes. This is a journey no one would ever choose, but one which a young man and his family finally engage on their own terms, with grace and dignity, and ultimately with a sense of victory . . . compelling reading for any professional in the field, and especially for those enduring the injury itself." From the Foreword by Joseph S. Ratner, M.D., Chief of Psychiatry, New England Rehabilitation Hospital