Life stress and managing transitions unanticipated change of course
the diagnosis of chronic progressive neurological disease
pp. 341-354
in: Thomas W. Miller (ed), Handbook of stressful transitions across the lifespan, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
The first author is a physician and psychiatrist, and the subject of this chapter. It is, thus, related in the first tense. Some two decades ago, he began to develop symptoms. His transitional journey as both a physician and a patient is the focus of this chapter. The second author is an occupational therapist whose career involved working with persons with Parkinson's disease.