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

Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. NY: Summit Books, 1985.

Coll. of articles published 1970-85, giving case studies of psychiatric patients with right-brain neuropathologies, pathologies so bizarre and resulting in such specific dysfunctions that the study of them is bringing neuropsychology close "to the very intersection of mechanism and life, to the relation of physiological processes to biography" (xiv).

See in this Category, the entries for Mechanism, Vitalism and Descartes, Réne (mechanism: cosmological, biological) — and follow the links.

RDE, Title, 28Aug19