Alexander Romanovich Luria, one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, is best known for his pioneering work on the development of language and thought, mental retardation, and the cortical organization of higher mental processes. Virtually unnoticed has been his major contribution to the understanding of cultural differences in thinking.
In the early 1930s young Luria set out with a group of Russian psychologists for the steppes of central Asia. Their mission: to study the impact of the socialist revolution on an ancient Islamic cotton-growing culture and,...
Alexander Romanovich Luria, one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, is best known for his pioneering work on the develo...
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. Woven throughout his first-person account are interpolations by Luria himself, which serve as excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and function."
Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, w...
The book is the outcome of seven years' experimentation with conflicts in the human mind, during which time artificial complexes were set up in normal adults, children, and neurotic personalities, and then resolved. Dr. Luria gives a remarkable description and interpretation of the mechanisms lying at the basis of behavior disorganization and offers an experimental approach to the laws of human behavior.
The book is the outcome of seven years' experimentation with conflicts in the human mind, during which time artificial complexes were set up in nor...
