クリッチュリー

Macdonald Critchley

本論文では，クリッチュリーの略歴と著述を概観した。著作の中で，『鏡像書字（1928）』『失語症学（1970）』を取り上げ，失語観を論じた。『鏡像書字』は鏡像書字の定義，症候，および類似症候を概観したものである。本書は現在もなお，これらの稀な症候の検索に有用である。クリッチュリーは基本的に脳の機能と障害についてジャクソンの考想——進化と解体——を継承してきた。クリッチュリーの全体論的な失語観を述べた。

神経症候学に関するクリッチュリーの思想の核心は，脳と行動，言語の起源を探索する姿勢であろう。

Abstract

In this paper, I review some of the writings of Macdonald Critchley with an accompanying biographical sketch. The contents of his first book, "Mirror-Writing" (1928) as well as those of "Aphasiology and other aspects of language" (1970), and his views on aphasia are presented.

The book "Mirror-Writing" consists of a major review of mirror writing and related reversal phenomena. This monograph provides great insight on these symptoms, which are rare today.

The ideas of Critchley on cerebral function and dysfunction (evolution and dissolution) substantially succeeded those of John Hughlings Jackson. Critchley's holistic view of aphasia is also briefly reviewed in this paper.

The principal of Critchley's thoughts on neurological symptomatology is an interest in the origins of the brain, behavior, and language.