The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Insight into the Mysteries of Consciousness

Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks recounts the most extraordinary stories of patients lost in the bizarre, often isolating world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who can no longer recognize common objects, whose limbs feel alien, or who are afflicted yet also gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling transforms each tale into a uniquely human study of life struggling against incredible adversity. This book offers brilliant insight into the mysteries of the mind, and is for everybody who has felt the twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.