A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind.
Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933, into a family of physicians and scientists. He received his medical education at Oxford and trained at Mt Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA. Since 1965, he has lived in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and consultant neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor. Dr Sacks is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, as well as various medical journals. He is the author of eleven books, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film). For more information on Dr. Sacks's work, please visit www.oliversacks.com.
A gripping journey into the recesses of the human mind
*Daily Mail*
Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His
case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the
mysteries of consciousness
*Guardian*
Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic
fiction . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and
just how delicately balanced they have to be
*Sunday Times*
Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book . . . His tales are so compelling
[because] many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the
condition of modern medicine but of modern man
*New York Magazine*
This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that
certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any
moment, one might lose it
*The Times*
A decidedly original approach . . . In addition to possessing the
technical skills of a twentieth-century doctor, [Sacks] sees the
human condition like a philosopher-poet. The resultant mixture is
insightful, compassionate and moving . . . he recounts these
histories with the lucidity and power of a gifted short-story
writer . . . a masterpiece of clinical writing
*New York Times*
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