ABSTRACT
The field of clinical neuropsychology has grown from a relatively specialized area within clinical psychology and behavioral neurology for much of the last century to becoming an established discipline in its own right, mainly within the past 50 years. It is an interesting curiosity that the discipline has shown relatively limited interest in addressing the interrelationship between cerebral dysfunction and personality or adaptation, apart from either reacquiring or developing compensatory functional skills. I consider the issue of personality development in cerebral damage in this chapter, which presents findings concerning personality patterns and adaptation in a 55-year-old patient with a longstanding learning and attentional dysfunction she attempted to keep secret, which had never previously been evaluated.
