The Making of Mind : A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology

by Alexander R. Luria, Sheila Cole, Michael Cole

Luria looks back on his life and career in psychology, drawing attention to the Soviet scientific establishment and his struggle to formulate a new psychological theory concerning memory, language, and intelligence

Genres: Psychology, Neuroscience, Science, Biography, Brain, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Alexander Romanovich Luria (Russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия ) was a famous Soviet neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist. He was one of the founders of cultural-historical psychology and the leaders of the Vygotsky Circle. Apart from his work with Vygotsky, he is widely known for his later work with two extraordinary psychological case studies, his study of a man with a highly advanced memory published as The Mind of a Mnemonist, and the study of a man with traumatic brain injury published in The Man with a Shattered World.

Reviews

[カリナ]

Proporciona un esbozo de la producción de su obra y explica el contexto, de modo que se puede entender de manera organizada y proporciona breves datos clínicos en cada sección. Recomendable.

[Amanda]

An autobiography of the grandfather of neuropsychology. Interesting especially in the context of the time and place he lived.

[Dave Riley]

The book that has given me so much insight into thinking and reality. Some sections are profound. Then for afters you have all his other works and case studies to change the way you think you think.

This is the man that mentored Oliver Sacks and who partnered the great Lev Vygotsky is his early work.

Dialectical Materialism lives.