الاسم : كتاب الرجل الذي حسب زوجته قبعة
تاريخ النشر : 1985
عن الكتاب : من أجمل الكتب وأكثرها مبيعآ في العالم، مجموعة قصص واقعية يرويها الدكتور النفسي " أوليفر ساكس " عن الأشخاص الذين كانوا يترددون على عيادته. يُعد كتاب "الرجل الذى حسب زوجته قبعة " من أشهر الكتب فى العالم وأكثرها نجاحا فهو كتاب فريد من نوعه بحق ، ألفه "أوليفر ساكس" طبيب الأعصاب المعاين في مستشفيات نيويورك، والكاتب ذو الأصل البريطاني، الشهير عالمياً بمؤلفاته العديدة والتي تعنى بدراسة حالات وتصرفات الأفراد الذين يعانون من اضطراب أو خلل وظيفي في أدمغتهم قصص غريبة من واقع آخر غريب عن واقعنا الاعتيادي، وشخصيات تعيش كل منها في عالمها المتفرّد والخاص و”الحقيقي” لأنه نابع من حقيقة تفّرد عقل نعتبره “أصيب بخلل” لأن تركيبته باتت مختلفة عن تركيبة عقلنا الإعتيادي. يقص المؤلف حكايات غريبة عن أشخاص “يمكننا القول أنهم مسافرون إلى بلاد لا يمكن تخيّلها” -بلاد لا يمكن، بغير ذلك، أن تكون لدينا أية فكرة أو تصوّر عنها”. كالبحّار الضائع الذي فقد إحساسه بالزمن، يعيش سجين لحظة معينة متكررة على الدوام، وكالتوأم المتّخلف عقلياً والذي يملك القدرة الفائقة على القيام بالعمليات الحسابية بسرعة خيالية، وكالسيدة العجوز التي ترصد حركات المّارة على الطريق وتقوم بتضّخيمها لتصبح مخيفة ومرعبة، وكالرجل الذي يظن نفسه كلباً، وكالموسيقي فاقد القدرة على تمييز الأشكال، والذي ظنّ أن القبعة هي رأس زوجته، وغيرها من الشخصيات التي يروي المؤلف قصصها في أقسام الكتاب الأربعة
Name : The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Book
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publishing Date : 1985
Genre : Psychology , And Neuroscience
Pages Number : 300
About The Book : One of the most beautiful and best-selling books in the world, a collection of realistic stories told by the psychiatrist "Oliver Sacks" about the people who used to visit his clinic. The book "The Man Who Counts His Wife for a Hat" is considered one of the most famous and successful books in the world. It is a truly unique book written by Oliver Sacks, an appointed neurologist in New York hospitals, and the author of British origin, who is world famous for his numerous books on the study of cases and behavior of individuals Those who suffer from a disorder or dysfunction in their brains are strange stories from another reality that is alien to our normal reality, and characters each live in their own unique, special and "real" world because it stems from the uniqueness of a mind that we consider "defective" because its structure has become different from that of our normal mind. . The author tells strange stories about people “we can say that they are traveling to unimaginable countries” - countries that, otherwise, we could not have any idea or conception of it. Like a lost sailor who lost his sense of time, a prisoner lives a certain moment that is always repeated, and like a mentally retarded twin who has the extraordinary ability to do mathematical operations with imaginative speed, and like an old lady who monitors the movements of pedestrians on the road and amplifies it to become frightening and terrifying, and like the man who thinks himself a dog, and like a musician He lacks the ability to distinguish shapes, and who thought that the hat was his wife's head, and other characters whose stories the author narrates in the four sections of the book
About The Writer : Oliver Sacks, Commander in the ranks of the British Empire, and a member of the Royal College of Physicians in Britain. Oliver Sacks is a British neurologist, naturalist, and writer, who spent his career in the United States. He believed that the mind was "the most amazing thing in the world" and therefore studying it is important
Subject : This book is truly unique, written by a neurologist assigned to hospitals in New York, and author of British origin, who is world famous for his numerous books that study the cases and behaviors of individuals who suffer from a disorder or dysfunction in their brains. “Patients constitute the focus of my work and my life,” he says in his book, defining the context of his professional and humanitarian work which forces him to live daily and permanently with the disease that raises questions that are “inherently fundamental”, and with his patients who drag him “constantly to the question” that he in turn constantly drags him to them. Therefore, the reader will find "in the following stories and studies a continuous movement from one direction to another."
Strange stories from another reality that is alien to our normal reality, and characters each live in their own unique, special and "real" world because it stems from the uniqueness of a mind that we consider "defective" because its structure has become different from that of our normal mind. The author tells strange stories about people “we can say that they are traveling to unimaginable countries” - countries that, otherwise, we cannot have any idea or conception of it “like the lost sailor who lost his sense of time, lives a prisoner of a certain moment that is always repeated, and like a twin The mentally retarded person who has the superior ability to do mathematical operations with imaginative speed, and like the old lady who monitors the movements of pedestrians on the road and amplifies them to become frightening and terrifying, and as the man who thinks himself a dog, and as a musician who lacks the ability to distinguish shapes, and who thought that the hat is the head of his wife, and others The characters whose stories the author tells in the book's four sections
The author emphasizes the complex relationship between the body, the mind and the mind, and stresses that the unification of its elements is what shapes the human being, thus raising the issue of the need for a new, more integrated medicine, which does not treat the body in isolation from the mind and the soul.
A must-read book, in order to obtain rare knowledge and facts “But what facts! And what stories! And with what we will compare? We may not have any existing models, metaphors or myths. Is the time, perhaps, for new symbols and new myths?