Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology

By R hawn Joseph

Book Overview

This book is written for the clinician, students, and practitioners of neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioral neurology. It has been my intent throughout to present a synthesis of ideas and research findings. I have reviewed thousands of articles and research reports and have drawn extensively from diverse sources in philosophy, psychol- ogy, neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, physiology, and neuroanatomy in order to produce this text. Of course I have also drawn from my own experience as a clinician and research scientist in preparing this work and in this regard some of my own biases and interests are represented. I have long sought to understand the human mind and the phenomena we experience as conscious awareness. After many years of studying a variety of Western and Eastern psychologists and philosophers, including the Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophical systems, I began, while still an undergraduate student, to formulate my own theory of the mind. I felt, though, that what I had come upon were only pieces of half the puzzle. What I knew of the brain was minimal. Indeed, it came as quite a surprise when one day I came across the journal Brain as I was browsing through the periodicals section of the library. I was awed. An entire journal devoted to the brain was quite a revelation. Nevertheless, although intrigued by the possibilities, I resisted.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441932119
• ISBN13: 9781441932112
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

It inspired me to go into the field of Neuropsych...

I found this book in my junior year as an undergraduate. At the time I was waivering about my future in any area of psychology which was disconcerting as it was my major. Mr. Jospeph's book was given out in an intro. to Neuropsychology course. The book was thick with information, but it was accessable enough that it did not overwhelm me as a new comer to neuropsychology. There were also elelements of personal philosophy that appeared regarding the function of the brain and the reason it works the way it does which appealed to my mind set. The book is also well designed in its chapter and section lay out especially compared with the more circuitous presentation of information offered in other books on the subject. It does tend to focus less on assessment than it does on pathology. This book is broad in its review of the subject while providing a good number very specific facts. This book, though it is nearly a dozen years old, provides an excellent starting point for those who are interested in brain and behavior relationships and who are new to the field. I still find myself thumbing through this book all the time, and thus I must highly recommend it. By the way neuropsychology will be my area of emphaisis in my doctoral studies, and I blame this book for my fascination with it.