The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A neurologist's portraits of patients whose strange conditions reveal how the mind makes a self.
Oliver Sacks’s collection of case histories from his work as a neurologist. His patients include a music teacher who could no longer recognise faces, a man whose memory stopped in 1945, and twins with a remarkable gift for numbers. Sacks writes about them as people rather than cases, and asks what their conditions reveal about the mind.
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Tanya Byron
This is a bit of an obvious one, but it is such a genius book. It is a seminal book that anyone who wants to work in mental health should read. It is a charming and gentle (and also honest) exposé of what can happen to us when our mental health is compromised for whatever reason.
Interview · March 2011
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