The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

«The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat» – a sensational book written by Oliver Sacks in 1971, which has since undergone dozens of reprints in English alone, not to mention numerous translations. It tells the stories of modern individuals trying to overcome serious and unusual mental disorders and fighting for survival in conditions unimaginable for healthy people, as well as about mystics of the past, obsessed with visions that modern science diagnoses as manifestations of severe neuroses. Sacks explains the strange, hard-to-grasp relationship between the brain and consciousness in an accessible, lively, and interesting way.