El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero

Published July 21, 2009 by Anagrama.

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978-84-339-7338-2
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In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.

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.

If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world …

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

Apparently I read this a long time ago (more than a decade ago) but I forgot and I only remembered after starting to read the book again.

I read through it all again. I’ve always had a passing interest in psychology and this is an enjoyable popular psychology book.

The salient point this book gets across through the various case studies presented within is that our perception of the world around us is far from universal. We should embrace our differences because they make us …

La sensación de conectar con la pasión de tratar a los pacientes.

5 stars

Es un libro básico para quienes quieren curiosear en los casos neuroclínicos más excpecionales y no es para menos. La verborrea es exquista. Una pena que el que escribe es un hombre de su tiempo (con todo lo que eso conlleva). Centra el aprecio a sus pacientes basado en la inteligencia, aunque creo que aprendió un poco cuando se abrió un poco en su carrera. Y se dota de una sensibilidad para comprender lo que pasa que creo que en esa época no abundaba. Ojo es un libro que triggea en ciertas actitudes por el poco conocimiento que se tiene de ciertos colectivos en esa época (autismo, discapacidad intelectual...).

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