title: Some lessons I have learned from 25 years in clinical neuropsychology: a letter to my grandchildren.
abstract: The practice and study of clinical neuropsychology is considered an empirical enterprise. However, such an approach may result in missing the more humanistic or phenomenological side of the experience of brain dysfunction. This addresses a personal journey rather than a professional and scientific one. In doing so, the limits of the discipline and the suffering and value of the experience of the illness are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403, USA. puente@uncw.edu
authors.forename: Antonio E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Puente
mesh_terms: D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009484:Neuropsychology; D010819:Physician's Role; D014481:United States