In his forward to Clinical Neuropsychology
Arthur Benton comments, “More aptly than might have
been anticipated, clinical neuropsychology is coming of
age. I mean by this that it is evolving from what was largely
a set of assessment procedures coupled with a diagnostic
inference to be drawn from them into a true discipline,
conscious of its conceptual bases and concerned with the
cognitive and neuromechanisms that mediate the behavior
of normal individuals and patients with brain disease.”
Dr. Benton's assessment catches the thrust of the
book well. It concerns itself with the development and
maturation of the field, its relationship to sister disciplines
such as behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, focuses
in on important practice and credentialing issues, and
provides cogent reviews of progress in many important content
areas.