Book review: Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology. Edited by Michael Hersen and Vincent B. Van Hasselt. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1998. No. of pages: xii+574. Price: $90.00.

✍ Scribed by Tom Arie

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 44 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199909)14:9<793::aid-gps22>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

This is not a controversial text, but a sober and generally full and reliable account of knowledge and uncertainty in the wide range of stroke-related neuropsychiatric phenomena. The work of the author and his team on depression features prominently, but the work of others, and other points of view, are well presented, including important UK studies. Many will ®nd the several tabulations of relevant studies and of their main ®ndings particularly useful.