The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales /
Oliver Sacks
- New York : A Touchstone Book, c1998.
- x, 243p. : ill. ; 21cm.
Includes index
Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.