the man who mistook his wife for a hat by oliver sacks

This book ranks with the very best of its genre. “Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist’s skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings.” -Publishers Weekly His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.” -The Guardian “Oliver Sacks has become the world’s best-known neurologist. “This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.” - The Times

His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man” - New York Magazine Sacks’s best book….One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one’s faith in humanity.” -Noel Perrin, Chicago Sun-Times “A provocative introduction to the marvels of the human mind….” -Clarence E. the lucidity and power of a gifted writer.” - The New York Times Book Review Sacks about The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 🎧 Listen to James Naughtie from the BBC as he talks to Dr. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do.

Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders: people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities whose limbs have become alien who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

The man who mistook his wife for a hat by oliver sacks