The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Issues in Development and Rehabilitation

ISBN-13: 9780792308478 Publisher: Springer US Publication date: 12/31/1990 Series: Foundations of Neuropsychology , #3 Edition description: 1991 Pages: 313 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.03(d) For a period of some fifteen years following completion of my internship training in clinical psychology (1950-1951) at the Washington University School of Medicine and my concurrent successful navigation through that school's neuroanatomy course, clinical work in neuropsychology for me and the psychologists of my generation consisted almost exclusively of our trying to help our physician colleagues differentiate patients with neurologic disorders from those with psychiatric disorders. In time, experience led all of us from the several disciplines involved in this enterprise to the conclusion that the crude diagnostic techniques available to us circa 1945-1965 had garnered little valid information on which to base such complex, differential diagnostic decisions. It now is gratifying t