The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound by Oliver Sacks, Lynn Solotaroff, Alexander R. Luria

The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound

Oliver Sacks, Lynn Solotaroff, Alexander R. Luria

192 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science reflective slow-paced

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Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening wor...

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