Oliver Sacks

1933–2015, United Kingdom / USA

Medical psychologyClinical psychology

British-American neurologist and writer. Popularized clinical neurology through fascinating stories of patients with extraordinary neurological conditions.

Books

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)

    Sacks presents extraordinary neurological cases with empathy and literary narrative, showing how brain lesions reveal the complexity of the human mind.