The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005745MYI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 155 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. PLEASE NOTE: Some changes have been made to the original manuscript with the permission of Oliver Sacks.. 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. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memorie
Fantastic book for Psychology majors Haven Johnson If you've ever wanted to read up on some of the most interesting psychological abnormalities out there, and you like to read books by well-known psychologists in the field, you won't be disappointed here. This book is an easy read, comprehensive, and interesting.I'm currently a sophomore in college, and I had to order this book for my Introduction to Psychology as a Major course last semester. Of all the bo. Rating will vary for this book The book is a science-y read, so it may be hard to follow. It requires the nerd in the most literary, neuroscientific, philosophical, psychological scientific type of way. Thus, I loved it! But it may not be for everyone. Not only does this book explore what it's like to be neuro-abnormal, but it also exemplifies the thinking brain of Oliver Sacks, the author, who has a different, yet intriguing, style of w. Amazing book This book hits on a very important and sensitive topic of demyelinating diseases. The stories are very well written. My grandmother had dementia and I gave this book to my father when I finished, and he loved it. I would definitely recommend it to everyone interested in demyelinating diseases.