What is *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat* about?

*The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat* by Oliver Sacks explores bizarre neurological disorders through 24 case studies, blending medical observation with profound human storytelling. It examines conditions like visual agnosia (a man mistaking his wife for a hat), amnesia, and Tourette’s syndrome, revealing how brain anomalies reshape identity and perception. Sacks combines clinical detail with empathy, offering insights into the resilience of the human mind.

Who should read *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat*?

This book is ideal for psychology enthusiasts, medical students, and general readers fascinated by brain science and human stories. Its accessible narratives appeal to those interested in neurology, patient experiences, or Sacks’ compassionate storytelling. Writers and educators also gain value from its blend of scientific rigor and literary craft.

Is *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat* worth reading?

Yes—it’s a landmark work in medical literature, praised for humanizing neurological conditions. Sacks’ vivid case studies, like a musician losing pitch perception or a surgeon developing Tourette’s, illuminate the brain’s fragility and adaptability. The book’s enduring relevance (over 1 million copies sold) and its influence on pop culture (films, operas) cement its status as a must-read.

What are the main themes in *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat*?

Key themes include **identity** (how brain damage alters self-perception), **adaptation** (patients coping with deficits), and the **duality of the brain** (disorders revealing hidden talents). Sacks highlights humanity in illness, showing how conditions like prosopagnosia (face blindness) or “witty ticcy syndrome” challenge conventional views of “normalcy”.

What neurological disorders does Oliver Sacks describe in the book?

Sacks details rare conditions such as: - **Prosopagnosia** (inability to recognize faces, as with Dr. P mistaking his wife for a hat). - **Aphasia** (language loss, contrasted with heightened musicality). - **Tourette’s syndrome** (a surgeon’s sudden tics and compulsions). - **Korsakoff’s syndrome** (severe amnesia)

What are some famous quotes from *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat*?

- **“If we wish to know about a man, we ask ‘what is his story—his real, inmost story?’”** Sacks emphasizes narrative as key to understanding identity. - **“The brain is an ecological thing, shaped by use and disuse.”** Highlights neuroplasticity and adaptation to trauma.

How does Oliver Sacks humanize his patients in the book?

Sacks avoids reducing patients to diagnoses, instead portraying their struggles, humor, and creativity. For example, he depicts Dr. P’s artistic coping with face blindness and a Tourette’s-afflicted surgeon’s professional resilience. His empathetic writing counters clinical detachment, emphasizing dignity in disability.

What criticisms exist about *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat*?

Some critics argue Sacks prioritizes narrative over scientific rigor, omitting technical data. Others note his focus on extraordinary cases may misrepresent common neurological experiences. However, most praise his ability to bridge medical and literary audiences.

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Capitolo 1

When the Brain Mistakes a Hat for a Wife

Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" has become a cornerstone of modern neurological literature since its 1985 publication. This collection of case studies has sold over a million copies worldwide and continues to influence how we understand the human brain. Beloved by celebrities like Bill Gates, who listed it among his all-time favorite books, and referenced in countless medical school curricula, the book bridges the gap between clinical neurology and humanistic storytelling. What makes this work so enduring is Sacks' unique approach-he treats his patients not as collections of symptoms but as complete human beings navigating profound neurological challenges. Through his compassionate lens, we discover that even the most unusual neurological conditions reveal something essential about human consciousness, identity, and resilience. As Robin Williams (who portrayed a Sacks-inspired character in "Awakenings") once remarked, "Oliver doesn't just observe his patients; he enters their experience." This revolutionary perspective transformed how we approach brain disorders and continues to resonate across medicine, psychology, and popular culture.

Capitolo 2

The Physician as Storyteller: Restoring Humanity to Medicine

In his preface, Sacks reveals a fundamental tension in his professional identity-he is both physician and naturalist, scientist and storyteller. Traditional case histories reduce patients to clinical subjects, focusing exclusively on disease while ignoring the person living with it. Sacks rejects this approach, seeking instead to restore the human narrative to medical practice. "There is, in clinical medicine, a form I would call the 'case history,'" Sacks explains, "where the patient is reduced to a collection of symptoms, a mere illustration of a disorder or disease." This reductive approach fails to capture what Sacks calls "the who"-the person experiencing the disorder. His alternative is to create what he terms "clinical tales" that honor both medical accuracy and human experience. This dual perspective reflects Sacks' intellectual heritage. As a neurologist, he follows the tradition of detailed clinical observation established by 19th-century pioneers like Broca, who first connected speech difficulties to specific brain regions. Yet Sacks also draws from Freud's early work on disorders of recognition and perception, and the sophisticated neuropsychology developed by Alexander Luria in Russia during World War II. Sacks' approach is particularly valuable for understanding disorders affecting the right hemisphere of the brain-an area historically dismissed as "primitive" despite controlling crucial reality-recognition powers essential for survival. Right-hemisphere syndromes remain underrepresented in neurological literature because they're harder to conceptualize and describe. These disorders reveal the physical foundations of selfhood and require what Sacks calls a "personalistic" or "romantic" neurology. Most importantly, Sacks recognizes that neurological disease is never merely loss or excess-there is always the organism's reaction, its attempt to restore identity, however strange the means. This "striving to preserve identity" creates an "organized chaos" that demands our attention as physicians and fellow humans. By combining scientific precision with narrative empathy, Sacks transforms neurology from the study of brain deficits into an exploration of human resilience.

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Capitolo 3

When Reality Becomes Unrecognizable: Visual Agnosia

Dr. P., a distinguished music teacher with a remarkable memory for faces and a gift for visualization, functioned like a machine, processing the world through abstract analysis devoid of personal meaning. He could identify a glove as "a continuous surface infolded on itself with five outpouchings," but couldn't recognize it as something to wear. Most disturbingly, he once mistook his wife's head for his hat, attempting to put her on like a garment. "He had wholly lost the world as representation," Sacks explains, "while preserving it as music or will." Dr. P. had developed visual agnosia due to a brain tumor affecting his visual cortex. He could see perfectly well-his eyes functioned normally-but he couldn't make sense of what he saw. He had lost the ability to perceive things as familiar, to grasp the wholeness of objects and faces. The extent of his deficit became clear when Sacks asked him to imagine walking through a local square. Dr. P. could only "see" buildings on his right side, omitting those on the left regardless of approach direction. His internal visualization showed the same deficits as his external vision. Though he could remember plot details from Anna Karenina, he completely lacked visual imagery of scenes or characters-the descriptions were empty of sensorial or emotional reality. Yet remarkably, Dr. P. remained unaware of his profound deficit. Unlike patients who struggle against their limitations, he didn't know anything was missing. His wife revealed how he managed daily life-through music. He dressed, bathed, and ate by making each activity into a song. If interrupted, he'd lose all connection to his body and surroundings. His paintings revealed the progression of his disease-from detailed realism to abstract geometrical forms and finally chaotic nonsense. This wasn't artistic development but advancing pathology. Sacks prescribed "a life which consists entirely of music," recognizing that music had replaced visual imagery for him. Dr. P.'s case raises profound questions about the nature of perception itself. Classical neurology, like Dr. P., suffers from excessive abstractness, ignoring the personal, judgmental aspects of cognition. We don't merely process visual data-we recognize, we judge, we relate. Dr. P.'s tragedy wasn't just failing to recognize objects; it was losing the ability to connect meaningfully with the visual world.

Capitolo 4

Lost in Time: Memory and Identity

Jimmie G., a cheerful 49-year-old man, was stuck in 1945. A former submarine radio operator with Korsakoff's syndrome (caused by alcoholism and thiamine deficiency), he believed Truman was president and couldn't form new memories. Any information given to him vanished within minutes, leaving him perpetually disoriented in a world that had moved on without him. "He is a man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment," Sacks observes. This profound amnesia raised disturbing questions about identity itself. If we are our memories, who are we when we can't remember? Does consciousness require continuity to have meaning? Despite our best hopes for helping Jimmie, we confronted an amnesia so profound that everything vanished into what Sacks called "a bottomless memory-hole." When Sacks suggested keeping a diary, Jimmie would lose it repeatedly. Even when physically attached to him, he couldn't recognize his own entries from the previous day. His notes remained trivial and disconnected-"Eggs for breakfast," "Watched ballgame on TV"-never touching deeper experiences. When asked about his feelings, Jimmie's responses revealed a profound emptiness: "I cannot say I feel anything at all." He denied feeling miserable but couldn't claim to enjoy life either. With infinite sadness, he admitted, "I haven't felt alive for a very long time." Yet something remarkable happened when Jimmie attended chapel services. There, Sacks witnessed an astonishing transformation-an intensity of attention he'd never seen before. During Communion, Jimmie was wholly absorbed, perfectly aligned with the spirit of the Mass, no longer at the mercy of his faulty memory but existing in an unbroken continuity of spiritual act. Similar depth emerged when Jimmie engaged with music, art, and gardening. While lost in "spatial time," he was perfectly organized in what philosopher Henri Bergson called "intentional time." Mental challenges left him falling back into amnesia, but emotional and spiritual engagement created lasting periods of pensiveness and peace. This suggests a profound philosophical lesson: even amid catastrophic neurological damage, the possibility of reintegration through art, communion, and human connection remains undiminished. Identity may depend less on continuous memory than on these moments of complete presence and attention-what Sacks calls "the fundamental certainty that underlies all understanding and all identity."

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Capitolo 5

The Sixth Sense: When the Body Becomes Alien

Christina, a young woman in her twenties, lost all sense of her body's position in space after a rare reaction to antibiotics damaged her proprioceptive nerves. She described her condition as feeling "disembodied" or like her body had "died." Without proprioception-the sixth sense that tells us where our limbs are without looking-she couldn't stand, walk, or even hold a cup without spilling it. "If the proprioceptive sense is lost," Sacks explains, "the body becomes, in a way, blind and deaf to itself... The body no longer knows itself." This invisible disability created profound existential distress that others couldn't understand. Christina described her body as "blind and deaf to itself," lacking any internal sense of its existence. Christina gradually developed extraordinary compensatory mechanisms. Her brain's visual model of her body strengthened to replace lost proprioception. Her normal unconscious proprioceptive feedback was replaced by visual feedback, becoming increasingly integrated and fluent. She adopted deliberate, conscious postures that eventually became automatic-sitting "statuesquely," projecting a theatrical voice, and using exaggerated facial expressions to compensate for lack of natural muscle tone. Similar disconnection from one's body appears in patients who deny ownership of their limbs. After a stroke affecting his right parietal lobe, one young man became convinced his left leg belonged to someone else. With a mix of terror and suspicion, he accused his doctor of joking: "Wouldn't you say that a man should know his own leg?" Despite acknowledging this principle, he remained convinced the leg was alien-"this thing doesn't feel right, doesn't feel real-and it doesn't look part of me." Most chillingly, when asked where his real left leg was, he grew pale: "I don't know... It's disappeared. It's gone. It's nowhere to be found..." This condition, called anosognosia, reveals how our sense of bodily ownership depends on specific brain functions that can be disrupted by neurological damage. These cases demonstrate how our experience of having a body isn't as simple as it seems. Our sense of embodiment requires continuous integration of multiple sensory inputs and feedback systems. When these systems fail, the experience is as profound as blindness, creating what Sacks calls "a defect in the natural theology of the body"-a fundamental disruption in our most basic sense of self.

Capitolo 6

Hands That Speak: The Power of Touch

Madeleine J., a congenitally blind woman with cerebral palsy, arrived at St. Benedict's Hospital at sixty years old. Despite her condition-spasticity and involuntary movements in both hands, plus undeveloped eyes-Sacks found her remarkably intelligent and articulate. She shocked him by declaring she couldn't read Braille or use her hands at all: "Useless godforsaken lumps of dough-they don't even feel part of me." This was puzzling. Her hands had only mild spasticity and intact sensation, yet she couldn't recognize objects placed in them and made no exploratory movements. Sacks wondered: had lifelong overprotection prevented her from developing normal hand function? Could she, at sixty, acquire what infants learn in their first months? The breakthrough came when nurses, at Sacks' suggestion, occasionally left food slightly out of reach. One day, impatient and hungry, Madeleine reached for a bagel-her first manual act in sixty years. This marked her birth as both a "motor individual" and "perceptual individual." Progress accelerated dramatically. She began exploring everything, first analyzing objects intellectually (a bagel as "round bread with a hole"), then recognizing them immediately with delight. Soon she requested clay and began sculpting-first a shoehorn, then human faces and figures. Within a year, she became locally celebrated as "the Blind Sculptress of St. Benedict's," creating expressive, three-quarter-sized sculptures. This miraculous late development revealed an astonishing artistic sensibility dormant for six decades. The hand's importance extends beyond physical manipulation to our very sense of reality. For amputees, phantom limbs-persistent images of lost body parts-are essential for using prosthetics. As one specialist notes, "no amputee with an artificial lower limb can walk satisfactorily until the phantom is incorporated into it." These phantoms vary dramatically: some ghostly and unreal, others compellingly lifelike; some painful, most painless; some exact replicas, others grotesquely distorted. These cases reveal how touch and manual exploration aren't merely secondary senses but fundamental to our engagement with reality. Through our hands, we not only manipulate the world but come to know it and ourselves. As Madeleine's case dramatically illustrates, it's never too late to develop this essential human capacity.

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Capitolo 7

When Excess Becomes Identity: Tourette's and Beyond

Classical neurology has no concept for an excess or superabundance of function, seeing functions as either working or not. But disorders characterized by excess challenge basic mechanistic concepts. While psychiatry speaks of "excited disorders" and pathology recognizes "hypertrophies," physiology has no equivalent. Ray, a 24-year-old with severe Tourette's syndrome since age four, had multiple violent tics occurring every few seconds. Despite his intelligence and wit, he'd been fired from numerous jobs due to his tics. He found refuge in music as a jazz drummer, where his sudden tics became brilliant improvisations. Similarly, his lightning reflexes gave him advantage in games like ping-pong. After trying medication with initial severe side effects, Ray eventually found a remarkable balance: taking Haldol during workweeks to be "sober, solid, square" and going medication-free on weekends to be "witty ticcy Ray"-frivolous and inspired. As Ray himself explains: "You 'normals' have all feelings, all styles available all the time. We Touretters are forced into levity by our Tourette's and forced into gravity by Haldol. You have natural balance; we must make the best of an artificial balance." This "dangerous wellness" creates extraordinary human dilemmas, where disease becomes seduction rather than affliction. Natasha K., a 90-year-old woman with neurosyphilis stimulating her cerebral cortex, enjoyed feeling "livelier" and "friskier" than she had in decades. She recognized the danger of progression but didn't want to lose her newfound vitality: "I don't want it to get worse, that would be awful; but I don't want it cured-that would be just as bad. I wasn't fully alive until the wrigglies got me." The paradox extends to other conditions-certain epilepsies, L-Dopa treatment-where illness may confer wellness, where "reality may lie in ebriety, not sobriety." This raises profound questions about identity: When does a neurological condition become so integrated with personality that treating it would destroy the person's sense of self? What happens when patients prefer their "abnormal" state to their "normal" one? In disorders of excess, the self may become increasingly aligned with sickness until it seems to have no independent existence. Yet remarkably, in most cases, the "powers of survival and the will to remain a unique individual are absolutely the strongest forces in our being, stronger than any impulses or disease. Health militant usually emerges victorious."

Capitolo 8

The Brain's Hidden Music: Memory, Reminiscence and Transport

While previous sections dealt with neurological deficits or excesses that clearly indicated "something physically the matter," certain neurological phenomena manifest as reminiscence, altered perception, or dream-states that seem more psychological than medical. These "transports"-often poignant and personally meaningful-tend to be seen as psychical rather than neurological, more likely to be confided to psychoanalysts than physicians. Bhagawhandi P., a 19-year-old Indian girl with a recurring malignant brain tumor, experienced vivid visions of India as her tumor advanced to her temporal lobe. Unlike typical temporal-lobe seizures which repeat a single fixed scene, Bhagawhandi's visions presented ever-changing panoramas of her homeland-landscapes, villages, homes, and gardens she had known as a child. When asked if these visions distressed her, she replied peacefully, "I like these dreams-they take me back home." Day by day, the visions intensified until they occupied most of her waking hours. Staff noticed she seemed to inhabit another world, responding when necessary but otherwise rapt in her inner journey. When asked what was happening, she answered simply, "I am dying. I am going home. I am going back where I came from-you might call it my return." A week later, she no longer responded to external stimuli but maintained her faint, happy smile. Three days later she died-or perhaps "arrived," having completed her passage to India. Similar "transports" occurred in Stephen D., a medical student who experienced a three-week period of dramatically heightened smell after using cocaine and amphetamines. His world became "overwhelmingly concrete" and rich with immediate significance. He could instantly distinguish each unique smell in a perfume shop and recognized patients by their individual "olfactory physiognomies" before seeing them. He navigated New York streets infallibly by smell, experiencing an impulse to sniff everything for confirmation of reality. This heightened sensory state altered his cognition. Previously intellectual and reflective, he now found abstraction difficult against the compelling immediacy of each experience. After three weeks, the transformation suddenly ceased. He returned to his "old world of pallor, sensory faintness, non-concreteness and abstraction" with mingled loss and relief. These cases reveal how abnormal stimulation of the temporal lobes and limbic system can transport a person through imagery and memory, potentially teaching us about the cerebral basis of visions and dreams, and how the brain (which Sherrington called "an enchanted loom") weaves its magic carpet of transport.

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Capitolo 9

The Concrete Mind: Intelligence Beyond Abstraction

The world of the intellectually simple holds a special fascination, stemming not from their defects, but from qualities of mind that are preserved or even enhanced-qualities that reveal themselves with particular clarity in the simple mind. The simple mind reveals a "poignant innocence, transparency, completeness and dignity" characterized primarily by "concreteness." Their world is vivid, intense, detailed yet simple because it exists without the complication or dilution of abstraction. Rebecca was a nineteen-year-old with profound spatial and perceptual deficits-unable to navigate her neighborhood, use keys properly, or dress herself correctly. Though scoring below 60 on IQ tests and unable to read or perform simple calculations, Rebecca showed remarkable receptivity to poetic language, metaphor, and religious symbolism. She created striking similitudes and understood the liturgy, prayers and symbols of Orthodox Jewish services. When first examined clinically, Sacks saw only her neurological deficits-a "broken creature" with multiple apraxias and agnosias. But encountering her outside, gazing peacefully at spring foliage, he witnessed a transformation. She made poetic observations about seasons and renewal that evoked Ecclesiastes, revealing a composed inner world inaccessible to formal testing. Rebecca possessed a "narrative being" that allowed her to integrate and compose a coherent world where her schematic abilities failed. When her grandmother died, she showed remarkable emotional depth and dignity in her grief, speaking in profound utterances: "It's winter inside. Cold as death," and "She was part of me. Part of me died with her." Martin, another intellectually limited patient, possessed an extraordinary musical gift. Though classified as mentally retarded, he knew all 202 of Bach's cantatas and which Sundays and Holy Days they should be sung on. When listening to Bach's Magnificat, it became clear that Martin possessed not just rote memory but genuine musical intelligence capable of appreciating Bach's technical complexity. Bach lived for him, and he lived in Bach. The twins, John and Michael, though severely limited in most intellectual functions, could instantly identify prime numbers up to twenty digits and calculate calendar dates for any year in the past or future. Their numerical abilities appeared fundamentally different from conventional calculation-they seemed to perceive numbers directly as sensuous forms or "faces" in a vast mental landscape. They didn't convert or calculate with numbers-they communed with them. These cases suggest that intelligence takes many forms beyond the abstract reasoning measured by conventional IQ tests. The concrete mind may access realms of understanding-musical, numerical, poetic, spiritual-that more abstract intellects might miss. As Sacks concludes, "The concrete readily moves into the aesthetic, dramatic, symbolic-the whole world of art and spirit. Though conceptually limited, the mentally defective may be fully equal in concrete and symbolic apprehension, able to understand the world as symbols even if not as concepts."

Capitolo 10

The Island of the Autist: Isolation and Original Vision

The autistic imagination, far from being rare, appears regularly-Sacks has seen a dozen examples in as many years without specifically searching for them. Autistics are, by their nature, isolated and thus original. Their vision comes from within and appears aboriginal, making them "a strange species in our midst, odd, original, wholly inwardly directed, unlike others." Unlike schizophrenics who complain of outside influence, autistics experience an absence of influence and absolute isolation. While John Donne wrote that "no man is an island," autism is precisely that-an island cut off from the main. In "classical" autism (manifest by age three), the cutting off occurs so early there may be no memory of connection. In "secondary" autism, caused by later brain disease, some memory of connection remains. But is being an island necessarily a death? Though "horizontal" connections with society are lost, "vertical" connections with nature and reality may intensify-direct, unmediated by others. This explains Jose's piercing directness and absolute clarity in perception and drawing, with no hint of ambiguity. Jose, an autistic artist, possessed extraordinary visual abilities. His drawings captured reality with a precision and directness that seemed almost supernatural. When asked to draw a flower, he didn't produce a generic representation but captured its exact form with botanical accuracy. His art revealed a mind that, though cut off from normal human connection, maintained a profound connection with the visual world. The characteristics of autistic art include derivativeness and stereotypy, but also unusual capacity for delayed rendition and rendering objects as perceived rather than conceived. Though seemingly untrainable due to indifference to others' reactions, specialists have successfully developed autistic artists through structured skill training and using drawing as communication. The final question becomes: can society make room for such singularity? Could Jose, with his fine eye and love of plants, illustrate botanical works or anatomy texts? Could he accompany scientific expeditions to draw rare species? His pure concentration would make him ideal. Or could he illustrate fairy tales, Bible stories, or elaborate manuscript capitals? Though capable of all these contributions, Jose will likely do none without someone understanding to guide him. Beyond formal training, an intimate relationship is required, as one specialist wrote: "The secret... was to share his spirit. The teacher should love the beautiful, honest retarded person, and live with a purified, retarded world." This insight applies not just to autistic artists but to our approach to all neurological differences-seeing not just deficits to be fixed but unique perspectives to be understood and valued.

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neurological case studies
visual agnosia
brain-identity connection
humanistic medical narrative
right hemisphere disorders

Citazioni da L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello

If he was given a glove he would not know that it was a glove, but might call it a continuous surface in-folded on itself, having five appendages.
He approached these faces—even of those near and dear—as if they were abstract puzzles or tests.
Oliver doesn't just observe his patients; he enters their experience.
Most importantly, Sacks recognizes that neurological disease is never merely loss or excess.
I haven't felt alive for a very long time.

Personaggi di L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello

Oliver SacksThe author and neurologist who treats the patients
Dr. P.A music teacher who suffers from visual agnosia
Mrs. P.The wife of Dr. P. who assists in his daily care
Alexander LuriaA Russian neuropsychologist who influenced Sacks

Sull'autore

Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933–2015), l'acclamato neurologo britannico e autore di bestseller di L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello, è stato un pioniere nell'esplorazione narrativa dei disturbi neurologici. Laureato all'Università di Oxford, Sacks ha unito il suo lavoro clinico presso istituzioni come l'Albert Einstein College of Medicine e la NYU con un raro dono nel rendere umani casi medici complessi attraverso una narrazione vivida.

Il suo libro — una pietra miliare della divulgazione scientifica — esamina condizioni come l'agnosia visiva e l'amnesia, riflettendo l'attenzione costante di Sacks per l'intersezione tra funzioni cerebrali, identità e resilienza.

Le sue altre opere influenti includono Risvegli (adattato in un film nominato agli Oscar), Musicofilia: Racconti sulla musica e il cervello e Un antropologo su Marte. Collaboratore frequente del The New York Times, gli scritti di Sacks sono stati tradotti in oltre 25 lingue e hanno ispirato adattamenti che spaziano dalle opere liriche ai documentari. L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello rimane un pilastro della letteratura neuropsicologica, lodato per la sua empatica sintesi di rigore scientifico e brillantezza letteraria.

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Lost in Time: Memory and Identity

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