An Analysis of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

self-and-identity

• Sacks aimed to examine neurological disorders from multiple points of view to understand what they meant for patients and their existence, calling his approach the 'neurology of identity.'

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• Luria was concerned with 'what effect does a remarkable capacity for memory have on other major aspects of personality … what changes occur in a person's inner world.'

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• Ray appeared resigned and even attached to his tics — Sacks reported his patient's own words to illuminate the lived texture of disorder.

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mind-and-cognition

• It is less deficits, in the traditional sense, which have engaged my interest than neurological disorders affecting the very structure of experience and identity.

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education-and-formation

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife heralded narrative medicine, placing stronger emphasis on listening to and incorporating patients' experiences in their care.

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• Luria wrote: 'The power to describe, which was so common to the great nineteenth-century neurologists, is almost gone now … It must be revived.'

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