The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound
Author(s): Aleksandr (Alexander) Luria; foreword by Oliver Sacks
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 world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past; half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty speaking, reading, and writing. Woven throughout his first-person account are interpolations by Luria himself, which serve as excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and function.
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- : Harvard University Press
- : The Belknap Press
- : 0.168
- : 30 April 1987
- : 1.354 Centimeters X 13.3 Centimeters X 21 Centimeters
- : books
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- : Aleksandr (Alexander) Luria; foreword by Oliver Sacks
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 168