(1) Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina;(2) Department of Psychology, University of North CarolinaWilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, 28403
Abstract:
The practice and study of clinical neuropsychology is considered an empirical enterprise. However, such an approach may result in missing the more humanistic or phenomenological side of the experience of brain dysfunction. This addresses a personal journey rather than a professional and scientific one. In doing so, the limits of the discipline and the suffering and value of the experience of the illness are presented. An earlier version of this article was presented as the Presidential Address for the Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) of the American Psychological Association in August of 2003.
