Alexander Romanovich Luria

Evgenia D. Homskaya

• 30 april 2001
• 9780306464942

Samenvatting:

This book - written by his long-standing colleague and published in Russian by Moscow University Press in 1992, fifteen years after his death - is the first serious volume from outside the Luria family devoted to his life and work and includes the most comprehensive bibliography available anywhere of Luria's writings.



Alexander Romanovich Luria is widely recognized as one of the most eminent neuropsychologists of the 20th century. Written by his closest colleague and collaborator, this book provides an intimate portrait of the life and scientific accomplishments of this famous Russian psychologist/neurologist. His important early work with L.S. Vygotsky and others - which greatly influenced Soviet psychology - is discussed, as well as his refinement of neuropsychology in the Soviet Union and worldwide. Luria's role in psychological science is reviewed from an insider's perspective.