THE MAN WITH A SHATTERED WORLD :THE HISTORY OF A BRAIN WOUND


THE MAN WITH A SHATTERED WORLD :THE HISTORY OF A BRAIN WOUND

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.


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Author A.R. LURIA
ISBN 9780674546257
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Call Number 617.14 LUR 1972
Publication HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publisher CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Year 1972
Physical Description XXII, 165 PAGES :ILLUSTRATIONS ; 21 CM
Subject BRAIN --WOUNDS AND INJURIES --PATIENTS --SOVIET UNION --BIOGRAPHY
BRAIN --WOUNDS AND INJURIES --COMPLICATIONS AND SEQUELAE
PERCEPTION, DISORDERS OF --PATIENTS --SOVIET UNION --BIOGRAPHY
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 --PERSONAL NARRATIVES --RUSSION
Related Names OLIVER SACKS (FOREWORD)
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