The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

In the worldwide bestseller The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks examines a large number of case histories from his own practice of patients with strange intellectual and perceptual disorders. He describes with respect and love people who have lost their memories and thus most of their past, who are no longer able to distinguish between people and objects, who have strange tics or involuntarily shout obscenities. With his stories, Sacks touches on the strangest extremes of human existence. He shines a powerful light on the workings of our minds. Through Sacks' empathy, the reader can enter the world of the patients and imagine what it is like to live as they do.