The Man Who vs Oliver Sacks

[elizad73]

Have followed the band since the beginning and only just read on Wikipedia that the album was named after “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat” – is the most fascinating and beautifully written collection of case studies by Oliver Sacks, who passed away in 2015. He was a New York neurologist who also wrote “Awakenings” for anyone who has seen the 90s movie with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. This book, and indeed Sacks himself pulled me into the world of Neuropsychiatry with its compelling descriptions of patients whose lives were often irrevocably transformed by minor brain pathologies, and this has since become a huge part of my medical career.

Does anyone know if this is actually true and who actually read the book? Whether true or not, I really do recommend buying it and reading it. It’s written for all so whilst there are some technicalities it is pretty accessible imho!

(Spoiler – my most frequent cases similar to these are people who closely resemble ‘The Lost Mariner’ 😢)

[almond]

Oooh, I love Oliver Sacks (and his long, long, long footnotes)! I highly recommend “Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf” and “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain” too.

I don’t know if it’s true but would be amazing if it is

[elizad73]

Yes seeing voices is great! Just remembered Uncle Tungsten too, all excellent reads. I haven’t read Gratitude the letters he wrote as he knew he was dying, might have to work my way through the rest of his collection

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