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The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound
Harvard University Press, 1987 eISBN: 978-0-674-25559-3 | Paper: 978-0-674-54625-7 Library of Congress Classification RD594.Z38L8713 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 617.4810440924
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. Much of the book consists of excerpts from Zasetsky’s own diaries. Laboriously, he records his memories in order to reestablish his past and to affirm his existence as an intelligent being. Luria’s comments and interpolations provide a valuable distillation of the theory and techniques that guided all of his research. His “digressions” are excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and its relation to higher mental functions. See other books on: Brain | Health | Man | Patients | Psychiatry See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Harvard University Press, 1987
eISBN: 978-0-674-25559-3
Paper: 978-0-674-54625-7
eISBN: 978-0-674-25559-3
Paper: 978-0-674-54625-7
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.
Much of the book consists of excerpts from Zasetsky’s own diaries. Laboriously, he records his memories in order to reestablish his past and to affirm his existence as an intelligent being. Luria’s comments and interpolations provide a valuable distillation of the theory and techniques that guided all of his research. His “digressions” are excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and its relation to higher mental functions.
Much of the book consists of excerpts from Zasetsky’s own diaries. Laboriously, he records his memories in order to reestablish his past and to affirm his existence as an intelligent being. Luria’s comments and interpolations provide a valuable distillation of the theory and techniques that guided all of his research. His “digressions” are excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and its relation to higher mental functions.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
