by Oliver Sacks · Pan Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330294911
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«The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat» is Oliver Sacks's neurology essay, published by Pan Books Ltd in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Oliver Sacks recounts stories of patients with uncommon neurological disorders, such as the man who mistook his wife for a hat. Through these cases, he explores how the brain constructs identity and perception, and how people adapt to altered realities.
The work was originally published in 1986 and falls within neuropsychology and psychiatry.
For readers interested in neurology, psychology, and real clinical cases, with an accessible popular-science approach.
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
