Language and Language Disturbances: Aphasic symptom complexes and their significance for medicine and theory of language
By
Kurt Goldstein, M.D.
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1948
Preface
Part one. The origin of aphasic symptoms
- 1. The problem and the origin of symptoms in brain damage
- a. Direct symptoms
- i. Symptoms due to dedifferentiation of function
- ii. Symptoms due to separation of an undamaged area from a damaged one
- b. Indirect or depending symptoms
- c. Symptoms due to catastrophic conditions
- d. Symptoms due to fatigue and perseveration
- a. Direct symptoms
- 2. The organismic approach to brain pathology in general
- 3. The organismic approach to aphasia
- a. The purpose of language and the problem of meaning
- b. Concrete and abstract language
- c. The disturbances of language due to pathology
- i. The significance of images for disturbed and normal language
- ii. The aphasic symptom complexes as expression of dedifferentiation of language due to pathology
- d. What can we learn from research on normal language for the interpretation
of aphasic symptoms?
- i. Significance of research in psychology of language
- ii. Significance of research in philosophy of language
- iii. Significance of research in linguistics
- iv. Significance of research in child psychology
- v. Some similarities between the development of language and defects in aphasics
- e. The organismic approach to the problem of localization of language and language disturbances
- 4. Survey of the various forms of disturbance of language in pathology
- a. Disturbances of language by impairment of abstract attitude
- b. Rational and emotional language in pathology
- c. Disturbances in finding of words
- d. Disturbances of repetition of heard language
- e. Disturbances of the expressive side of language
- i. Dysarthria
- ii. Motor aphasia
- iii. The origin or paraphasia
- iv. Central motor aphasia
- v. Severe motor aphasia due to lesions in the temporal lobe
- f. Disturbances of the receptive side of language
- g. Disturbances of inner speech
- h. Disturbances of "intelligence" in aphasic patients
- i. Disturbances of reading and writing
- j. Disturbances of the calculating capacity
- k. Disturbances of gestures in aphasic patients
- l. Disturbances of language in polyglot individuals with aphasia
- m. Disturbances of musical performance
- n. Nomenclature
- o. Examination
Part 2. Case reports, pathologic anatomy, treatment
- 5. Pictures in which disturbances of the expressive side are in the
foreground
- a. Peripheral motor aphasia
- b. Central motor aphasia
- 6. Pictures in which disturbances of the receptive side are in the foreground
- a. Peripheral sensory aphasia
- 7. Central aphasia
- 8. Amnesic aphasia
- 9. Pictures of speech disturbances due to disturbances of non-language
mental processes
- a. The transcortical aphasias
- i. Motor
- ii. Sensory
- iii. Mixed forms
- iv. Echolalia
- b. Other types of speech disturbances due to impairment of the non-language mental performances
- a. The transcortical aphasias
- 10. Treatment
- a. General remarks
- b. Training of patients with motor speech defects
- c. Training in disturbances of reading
- d. Training in disturbances of writing
- e. Treatment in disturbances of word finding
Concluding remarks
Bibliographies
Index