The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Stories from Medical Practice

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is a sensational book written by Oliver Sacks back in 1971 and which has since been reprinted dozens of times in English alone, not to mention numerous translations. These are stories of modern people trying to overcome serious and unusual mental disorders and struggling to survive in conditions unimaginable for healthy people, and about mystics of the past, obsessed with visions that modern science diagnoses as manifestations of severe neuroses. Sacks explains the strange, difficult to understand relationships between the brain and consciousness in an accessible, lively and interesting way.