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