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Showing posts with label Oliver Sacks. Show all posts

Oliver Sacks talks about why is he still seeing his psychoanalyst after 46 years

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In this video the British neurologist speaks about his analysis and how it has influenced him. See also Donald Hall an American poe...

Migraine by Oliver Sacks

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Buy Migraine by Oliver Sacks here. Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and ofte...

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

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Buy The Mind's Eye here. How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the proc...

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks

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Buy An Anthropologist on Mars here. As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case ...

The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks

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Buy The Island of the Colour-blind here. Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny a...

On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks

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Buy On the Move: A Life here. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks wil...

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

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Buy Awakenings here. Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and vario...

Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks

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Buy Oaxaca Journal here. Oliver Sacks, the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , is most fam...

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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Buy Musicophilia here. Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fun...

Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf

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Buy Seeing Voices here. Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfa...

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks

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Buy A Leg to Stand On here. When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himsel...

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

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Buy Uncle Tungsten here. In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the lar...

Vintage Sacks

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Buy Vintage Sacks here. Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The New York Times, Oliver Sacks is a practicing neurologist and a...

Oliver Sacks - Quotes

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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” ― Olive...

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

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Buy Hallucinations here. Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat brings together twenty-four of Oliver Sacks’s most fascinating and beloved case studies. The patie...