The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

In this masterful collection of astonishing case histories, Oliver Sacks recounts the experiences of patients who are afflicted with bizarre mental disorders and impossible perceptual 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—Dr. Sacks’s superb and sympathetic telling brings these stories to life.