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1. Pathologies of Awareness: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice

   A Special Issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

   Edited by Linda Clare, Peter W Halligan

   Series: Special Issues of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

   This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation provides an opportunity to characterise some of the key clinical issues concerned with assessing and managing pathologies of subjective or conscious awareness. Elucidating the cognitive processes underlying awareness, and their corresponding...

   Published August 30th 2006 by Psychology Press
2. Pathologies of Body, Self and Space

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Peter W Halligan, Sean Spence

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   What happens when the physical body and the subjective sense of self part company? How do we explain phantom limbs and alien abduction? What are the cognitive, neurobiological mechanisms that support such phenomena? In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Spence and Halligan explore all...

   Published September 4th 2002 by Psychology Press
3. Spatial Neglect

   A Clinical Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment

   By Ian H. Robertson, Peter W. Halligan

   Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

   Spatial neglect is a profound clinical problem as well as intriguing scientific problem. In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of interest in this disorder, which as a result is no longer viewed as a single entity, but rather as a number of different disorders. This book is an attempt...

   Published July 5th 2000 by Psychology Press
4. Conversion Hysteria

   Towards a Cognitive Neuropsychological Account, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   By Anthony S. David, Peter W. Halligan

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Patients with hysterical conversion present with striking physical symptoms such as weakness, sensory disorders or memory loss, that suggest a neurological disease but which show no evidence of brain and central nervous system damage. Although it is now over one hundred years since Breuer and Freud...

   Published August 25th 1999 by Psychology Press
5. Method In Madness

   Case Studies In Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Peter W. Halligan, John C. Marshall

   In clinical neuropsychiatry, case studies provide invaluable demonstrations of the range and types of unusual psychological states that can occur after brain damage. In the pursuit of objectivity and scientific respectability, however, many academic reports of neuropsychiatric disorders appear cold...

   Published September 30th 1996 by Psychology Press
6. The Experience of Visual Neglect / Illustration of Visual Neglect / Art and Visio-spatial perception

   By Peter Halligan, John C. Marshall

   The Experience of Visual NeglectMany patients who suffer stroke have to overcome a variety of behavioral problems which effect the quality of their daily lives. Helping such patients to cope successfully with the effects of their stroke requires the recognition not only of the more common physical...

   Published August 3rd 1993 by Psychology Press