The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound - Couverture souple

Luria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674546253 ISBN 13 : 9780674546257

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past; half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty speaking, reading, and writing.

Much of the book consists of excerpts from Zasetsky's own diaries. Laboriously, he records his memories in order to reestablish his past and to affirm his existence as an intelligent being. Luria's comments and interpolations provide a valuable distillation of the theory and techniques that guided all of his research. His "digressions" are excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and its relation to higher mental functions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A. R. Luria was Professor of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674546253
• ISBN 13: 9780674546257
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 187
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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