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This study explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon-a
man who was endowed with virtually limitless powers of memory. From
his intimate knowledge of S., the mnemonist, gained from
conversations and testing over a period of almost thirty years, A.
R. Luria is able to reveal in rich detail not only the obvious
strengths of S.'s astonishing memory but also his surprising
weaknesses: his crippling inability to forget, his pattern of
reacting passively to life, and his uniquely handicapped
personality.
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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