The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound

Brand: Harvard University Press

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UPC:
9780674546257
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
4/30/1987
Author:
Aleksandr R. Luria
Language:
english
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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. Woven throughout his first-person account are interpolations by Luria himself, which serve as excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and function.