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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) Book

Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.Read More

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    P. a music teacher whose associates have questioned his perception is referred by his ophthalmologist to the neurologist Oliver Sacks. During the first office visit Sacks notices that P. faces him with his ears not his eyes. His gaze seems unnatural darting and fixating on the doctor's features one at a time. At the end of the interview at which his wife is present P. appears to grasp his wife's head and try to lift it off and put it on his own head. "He had . . . mistaken his wife for a hat!" She gave no sign that anything odd had happened. ; ; During the second interview at P.'s home P. is unable to recognize the rose in Sacks' lapel describing it as "a convoluted red form with a linear green attachment." He is encouraged to speculate on what it might be and guesses it could be a flower. When he smells it he comes to life and knows it. The wife explains that P. functions by making little songs about what he is doing--dressing washing or eating. If the song is interrupted he simply stops till he finds in his sensorium a clue on how to proceed. ; ; ; This cantatory method of compensating allows P. to function undetected in his professional and personal life. He remains unaware that he has a problem. Sacks chooses not to disturb his ignorant bliss with a diagnosis. Though his disease (never diagnosed but hypothesized as a tumor or degeneration of the visual cortex) advances

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    The groundbreaking bestseller from the greatest clinical writer of our time

  • 0330294911
  • 9780330294911
  • Oliver Sacks
  • 6 February 2009
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • needs moral rights clause when e-book published
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