The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales



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Format: pdf
Publisher: Harpercollins
Page: 209
ISBN: 0060970790, 9780060970796


Sacks has observed and diagnosed. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. This is a collections of essays written by a psychiatrist about his patients. The Man Who M istook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a book about various neurological cases that Dr. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. It became clearer that I would have to break out of a purely medical format and find another one that, while remaining faithful to the clinical, could go beyond it and point to something larger and deeper. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self. This book was recommended to me by Annette Simmons. The world keeps Sacks, Oliver W. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown), by Rebecca Skloot, has spent fifteen weeks (and counting) on the Times best-sellers list. Posted on February 7, 2013 by admin. I found the tales Fortunately many of the clinical tales recount rather rare conditions. Yes there was a man who mistook his wife for a hat though the title is more provocative than the actual tale. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (1985) by Oliver Sacks.