Alexander Romanovich Luria: A Scientific Biography

Alexander Romanovich Luria is widely recognized as one of the most preeminent neuropsychologists of the twentieth 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. Homskaya discusses his important early work with L.S. Vygotsky and others – which greatly influenced Soviet psychology – 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. Published in Russian by Voenizdat (Moscow) in 1992, fifteen years after his death, this is the first scholarly review of Luria's life and accomplishments written by an individual outside the Luria family and includes biographical notes as well as the most comprehensive bibliography available anywhere of Luria's writings. As such it will be of interest to all psychologists desiring further information about the development of Soviet psychology and neuropsychology. Psychologists, neurologists, neuroscientists, speech and language pathologists, and historians of psychology and Soviet science will find the book invaluable.