Language and Language Disturbances
1948 book by Kurt Goldstein
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Language and Language Disturbances: Aphasic Symptom Complexes and Their Significance for Medicine and Theory of Language is a book on aphasia by Dr. Kurt Goldstein, published in 1948. In Language and Language Disturbances, Goldstein theorized that a loss of abstract processing was the core deficit in aphasia.[1]
Title page for Language and Language Disturbances: Aphasic Symptom Complexes and Their Significance for Medicine and Theory of Language (1948) | |
| Author | Kurt Goldstein |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Psychology |
| Publisher | Grune & Stratton |
Publication date | 1948 |
In his work, Goldstein studied transcortical sensory aphasia (TSA), characterizing it as impaired auditory comprehension, with intact repetition and fluent speech.[2] Goldstein studied word comprehension in patients with aphasia, theorizing that naming shows relatively little specificity to the site of lesion within the left hemisphere.[3]
Goldstein compared patients with damage restricted to the anterior portion of the left hemisphere (whose difficulties are primarily a matter of production) with those with exclusively posterior damage (whose difficulties lie chiefly in comprehension.[4]
Goldstein cited cases where patients experienced semantic confusion and could not verbalize certain words as a result of the brain damage. In one instance, a German patient of Goldstein's who could not name a handkerchief, said instead "nas'putzen" ("to blow one's nose").[5]
See also
- On Aphasia, a book by Sigmund Freud
