ABSTRACT
A relational approach to rehabilitation, is one that proceeds outwards, to context, to gain useful understandings of a material brain injury within the interior. It encompasses and utilizes aspects of many approaches, all of which have in common an emphasis on defining brain injury against a backdrop of differing perspectives within the social context. Couples therapy automatically takes a broader view, of a brain injury which occupies not just head space but also social space, for it can bring people together and act as a bond, but also distance people and pull them apart. Relational approaches allow the therapist to focus their skills by attending to points of connection and intimacy. This requires skill in attending to the unseen, sometimes reflecting back like a mirror, or focusing like a magnifying glass on the space between, or scattering light outwards like a prism to the sources of support that are hidden from view.
