Make sense of neuropsychology in psychiatry

Book Review by Vaughan Bell, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Hospital San Vicente de Paúl, Medellín, Colombia

One of the lesser noted revisions in the draft DSM-V is a change in the definition of a mental disorder from “a manifestation of a behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction” to one “that reflects an underlying psychobiological dysfunction”, highlighting the fact that we have increasingly come to regard neuropsychology as the best compromise in the vexatious mind-body problem and sometimes the reluctant redeemer of a medical speciality best known for its irreconcilable differences between objective and subjective worldviews.