ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the 'reaching out' of neuropsychology to the relational thinking, and to reciprocally inform relational therapeutic work using helpful neuro-psychological principles. A connection to the material parameters of an altered neurobiological substrate is necessary. Applying relational perspectives without considering how, say, the system or socially constructive processes have been in part influenced by the brain injury would be incomplete. Methodological and theoretical differences between neuropsychology and discourse analysis are far greater than differences between most branches of sociology and anthropology. The chapter discusses the traditional cognitive domains that most commonly feature in neuro-psychological assessment reports or compartmentalize neuro-rehabilitation literature: language, memory, visuo-spatial perception and praxis, attention, and executive functioning. It presents to the reader lesser known, perhaps marginalized perspectives, studies and findings within the core domains that all serve to locate functions within relationships, not isolated skulls.
