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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Picador Collection (Related to this series)

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What to expect

A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. With an introduction by Will Self, read by Oliver Sacks.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities, and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.

A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist.

Critics Review

A gripping journey into the recesses of the human mind
Daily Mail
Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness
Guardian
Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be
Sunday Times
Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book . . . His tales are so compelling [because] many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man
New York Magazine
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
A decidedly original approach . . . In addition to possessing the technical skills of a twentieth-century doctor, [Sacks] sees the human condition like a philosopher-poet. The resultant mixture is insightful, compassionate and moving . . . he recounts these histories with the lucidity and power of a gifted short-story writer . . . a masterpiece of clinical writing
New York Times

User Reviews

Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
Author Oliver Sacks
Narrator Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
Series Picador Collection
Duration 9 hours and 33 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781509895687
Format Audiobook
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Genre Literary essays, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Popular psychology, Popular science
Availability GB, IE
Rating
4.0 (1 review)
Narration
5.0 (1 review)

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