The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Summary

Christian Borruso
Period 7
Book Report The book that I read was “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales” Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a book that was written in 1985. It was written by Oliver Sacks, explains the histories of the cases of a few of his many patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The book is made up of twenty-four essays. Each of these essays is broken up into four different pieces, each one having to do with a certain part of brain function such as deficiencies and excesses in the first two parts of the brain. Throughout this, he largely stresses the right side of the brain. The third and the fourth essays describe many different abstract qualities people can have …show more content…
The first of the four sections is called “Losses”. People who lose or are missing something from their brain may be subject to diseases or an injury. In the case of the man who mistook his wife for a hat, Dr. P is a musician, and he has problems with his visualizing of images. He had a lot of trouble recognizing the things that were right in his vicinities, such as his wife, his face and his shoes. One of the things that he accidentally did was grab his wife’s head to put it on his. He thought that her head was a hat. In the second section, “Excesses”, many of the disorders that the brain can have are discussed. Witty Ticcy Ray is about one of Sack’s patients, named Ray, who has Tourette’s syndrome. Ray is 24 years old. He has a lot of energy and is enthusiastic about the way he acts. He is very talented in respects to playing the drums, and ping-pong as well. His syndrome has given him an abnormal quickness when reacting to things. When Sacks gave him medicine to treat his disorder, Ray

Show More

Related Documents: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Summary

Summary: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat