ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the story of Claire, a nurse, wife, and mother of four, who having survived encephalitis, was left with an inability to recognise faces, a condition also known as prosopagnosia together with a loss of knowledge of people and more general loss of semantic memory. Behavioural experiments, also mentioned by Claire, derive from cognitive behaviour therapy. They are designed to test out the validity of a person's beliefs. She thought that without her face recognition and autobiographical memories her friends would think her rude. She had started the Friendship Book after discussions with Bonnie-Kate and her pre illness interest in making scrapbooks. Identity Unknown gives an exceptional, poignant and in-depth understanding of what it is like to live with the severe after-effects of brain damage caused by a viral infection of the brain. Claire also mentioned the 'Stop Think' strategy. This comes from the Goal Management Framework (GMF).
