![]() ![]() There are stories of mental losses, mental excesses, mental transports, and the world of the simple. ![]() In each section, Sacks highlights several stories of patients suffering from a disease corresponding to the section heading. Just as many neurological diseases are not mutually exclusive, neither are the stories Sacks compiles. Sacks divides his book into four separate but somewhat intertwining parts. Sacks mixes his clinical jargon with a personal empathy for his patients, drawing the reader in and allowing even the most inexperienced reader to gain a better understanding of the lives of the mentally disabled. Often books of this sort are written as a series of case studies full of medical terminology that leaves the average reader frustrated and unwilling to finish the book. His goal in writing the book is to present the personal side of neurosis. He has compiled some of his more interesting, more personal stories into one volume to share with the world. ![]() Oliver Sacks is a professor of clinical neurology who has spent years seeing patients. ![]()
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