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The Woman Who Can't Forget - The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir (Paperback)
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The Woman Who Can't Forget - The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir (Paperback)
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Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition
called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic,
autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was
fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost
instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on
that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took
place, as long as she heard about it that day. Her memories are
like scenes from home movies, constantly playing in her head,
backward and forward, through the years; not only does she make no
effort to call her memories to mind, she cannot stop them.
"The Woman Who Can't Forget" is the beautifully written and moving
story of Jill's quest to come to terms with her extraordinary
memory, living with a condition that no one understood, including
her, until the scientific team who studied her finally charted the
extraordinary terrain of her abilities. Her fascinating journey
speaks volumes about the delicate dance of remembering and
forgetting in all of our lives and the many mysteries about how our
memories shape us.
As we learn of Jill's struggles first to realize how unusual her
memory is and then to contend, as she grows up, with the unique
challenges of not being able to forget -- remembering both the good
times and the bad, the joyous and the devastating, in such vivid
and insistent detail -- the way her memory works is contrasted to a
wealth of discoveries about the workings of normal human memory and
normal human forgetting. Intriguing light is shed on the vital role
of what's called "motivated forgetting"; as well as theories about
childhood amnesia, the loss of memory for the first two to three
years of our lives; the emotional content of memories; and the way
in which autobiographical memories are normally crafted into an
ever-evolving and empowering life story.
Would we want to remember so much more of our lives if we could?
Which memories do our minds privilege over others? Do we truly
relive the times we remember most vividly, feeling the emotions
that coursed through us then? Why do we forget so much, and in what
ways do the workings of memory tailor the reality of what's
actually happened to us in our lives?
In "The Woman Who Can't Forget," Jill Price welcomes us into her
remarkable life and takes us on a mind-opening voyage into what
life would be like if we didn't forget -- a voyage after which no
reader will think of the magical role of memory in our lives in the
same way again.
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