Memory for Actions By Johannes Engelkamp. Psychology Press, Hove, UK, 166 pp. Essays in Cognitive Psychology Series, 1998. £22.50.

This is a valuable guide to clinical neuropsychological assessment. It emphasises both the practical issues of assessment across clinical settings and the psychometric properties of the tests often used in these areas. The book covers its topics in some depth under three broad sections: (1) fundamental elements of the assessment process; (2) special issues, settings and populations; and (3) approaches and methodology. The chapters on estimating pre-morbid intellectual functioning, geriatric assessment, and report writing are particularly useful and the inclusion of thoughtful and practical summary tables throughout the book enhances it's readability. The depth of approach probably makes it a more appropriate book for the clinician with some neuropsychological experience than for the novice and a primarily North American perspective is evident in the chapters which focus on the Halstead±Reitan Battery, the Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory and computerised approaches to testing. Overall, the clinical and psychometric foci of the book make this a useful addition to the assessment literature and one which I am sure will be of bene®t to any clinician within the ®eld of clinical neuropsychology.