The Man with a Shattered World - The History of a Brain Wound (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1987
First published:	April 1987
Authors:	A.R. Luria
Translators:	Lynn Solotaroff
Dimensions:	202 x 132 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	165
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-54625-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
LSN:	0-674-54625-3
Barcode:	9780674546257

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