[Psychodiagnosis of brain damage and brain damage sequelae in adults]

The author examines methodical problems of construction and validation, and the local value of psychological methods within the framework of neuropsychological diagnostics. He bases this examination on a characterization of the wide field of problems of psychological diagnostics when proving, bjectivizing, quantifying and describing psychic consequences of cerebro-organic conditioned functional lesions and their differential diagnostic delimitation with regard to other symptom images. He goes on to describe diagnostic aims, statement possibilities and the limitations of psychopathometric and psychopathognostic testing devices. Finally, more from pragmatic than from strictly theoretical aspects of neuropsychology, he gives an outline of a number of major psychodiagnostic processes commonly used in practice with a view to objecting and quantifying forms of performance and behavior resulting from cerebro-organic alterations, i.e. processes which definately occupy an equal place in the arsenal of methods employed by the neuropsychiatrist.