Psychoprosthetics

Contributors will be well-known clinicians, practitioners, researchers and academics who work with prosthetics. The editors have considerable experience in reviewing, editing and publishing and are leaders in this field. They have published in all the leading relevant journals related to the area, have been invited to speak at key conferences and lead an active multidisciplinary group of researchers and clinicians interested in applying many aspects of psychology to prosthetic use, especially in regard to the rehabilitation of people with amputations. All editors direct the Dublin Psychoprosthetics Group – a multidisciplinary group of researchers and clinicians interested in applying many and varied aspects of psychology to prosthetic use, especially in regard to the rehabilitation of people with amputations.: (See www.tcd.ie/psychoprosthetics).

• Psychoprosthetics: An Introduction.- Coping and Psychosocial Adjustment to Amputation.- Limb Loss and Body Image.- Management of Chronic Pain After Limb Loss.- Cognition and Mobility Rehabilitation Following Lower Limb Amputation.- Psychological Adjustment to Lower Limb Amputation: An Evaluation of Outcome Measurement Tools.- Interventions for Psychological Issues in Amputation: A Team Approach.- Anthropology and Its Individual, Social, and Cultural Contributions to Psychoprosthetics.- Embodiment and Prosthetics.- Osseoperception and Osseointegrated Prosthetic Limbs.- Virtual and Augmented Reality, Phantom Experience, and Prosthetics.- Psychological Fit of a Prosthetic Arm: An Illustrative Case Study Using Repertory Grid Analysis with a User of a High-Tech Upper Limb Prosthesis.

From the reviews:"Psychoprosthetics is an important new text for the field of rehabilitation. The editors are leaders in the field of psychology … and have gathered together an excellent group of contributing authors. … The chapters finish with a discussion of the research needed to advance the field … . Psychoprosthetics is a reference text that should be embraced by clinicians of varied disciplines and expertise. … This book likewise highlights the great need for further research in this important area of medicine." (Todd Alan Kuiken, JAMA, Vol. 299 (16), 2008)“This book uses an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the psychosocial issues of persons who require prosthetic devices. … This book has the most up-to-date research and references that one can find in the area of loss of limb and prosthetics. … must for anyone who is a student, practitioner, and/or researcher who works or intends to work with a person who has a prosthetic devise. … it is a book for professionals in all disciplines who work in the area of rehabilitation, and I agree.” (Catherine S. Wilson, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2010)