Aphasia / [S.A. Kinnier Wilson].

  • Wilson, S. A. Kinnier (Samuel Alexander Kinnier), 1878-1937.
Date:
1926
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    clinical interest, but for that matter no one of the three schemes is by itself satisfactory. There are certain important psychological characteristics of aphasic disorder in a general sense, largely common to all varieties ; on the other hand, there is a definite associa¬ tion between certain clinical varieties and the interruption of certain mech¬ anisms of a physiological order. It appears to me that until further advance is made a psychological arrangement has the serious disadvantage of losing touch with cerebral function, and this is not compensated for by the greater scientific legitimacy which is claimed for it. In no subject of neurological study is the personal point of view of the investigator more often exhibited than in his approach to the question of aphasia. To read the communications of some psychologists, one would sup¬ pose they had never heard of the science of neuropathology; on the other hand, when examining the localis¬ ing deductions of some neuropathol¬ ogists, one fears the idea that speech is an intellectual function is foreign to their conceptions. [ 78 ]