Table of Contents

Part I: Setting the Scene 1: Patients and their Problems 2: Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation Part II: Living with Memory Disorders 3: Jack: Coming to Terms with Amnesia 4: Jay: Compensating for Amnesia 5: Alex: Some recovery, Return to Work and Marriage Following Anoxic Brain Damage Part III: Memory and Other Cognitive Problems 6: The Man Who Continues to Have Just Woken Up 7: Martin: A Complete Human Being 8: Lorna: Cognitive Decline and Myotonic Dystrophy 9: Jason: Learning to Be Independent After Encephalitis Part IV: Language Impairment 10: Bill: Learning to Communicate with Symbols Five Years After a Stroke 11: Laurence: Listening to the Message and Not the Words 12: Ron: Picking Up the Pieces Part V: Remediation of Acquired Disorders of Reading 13: Ted: The Man Who Could Read "Astrocytoma" But Not "Dog" 14: Derek: Re-learning to Read After a Gunshot Wound 15: Jenny: Regaining Quality of Life Following a Horse Riding Accident Part VI: Perceptual and Visuospatial Problems 16: Paula: Fear of Physiotherapy and Problems Recognizing Objects After a Severe Head Injury 17: Kirsty: A Case of Optic Aphasia, Associative Agnosia or Semantic Memory Impairment? 18: Richard: A Socially Skilled Young Man Despite Severe Memory and Perceptual Difficulties 19: Dolly: Learning to Attend to the Left Side of Space Part VII: Behavior and Self-Care Skills 20: Jim: Improving Concentration and Reducing Behavior Problems 21: Improving the Self-Care Skills of a Woman with Quadriplegia and Dysarthria 22: Sarah: Learning Some Self-Care Skills After an Anaesthetic Accident

Reviews

"By focusing on the individual human being with a memory or language or perceptual or behavioral disorder and including examples of her own failed treatments, Wilson paints a picture of neuropsychological rehabilitation that is very true to life. By providing these examples of her resourceful and very personal treatment along with her patients reactions, adjustments and long-term outcomes, Wilson inspires clinicians engaged in their day-to-day attempts to help
individuals with cognitive disorders..."From Barbara A. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 1999."
"...guided by a firm foundation in scientific theory, while maintaining the flexibility and creativeness characteristic of an art."--JINSVol.7, Iss.4