The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Written by: Dr Oliver Sacks Although the title suggests a comic strip, Oliver Sacks presents an entirely different view about mentally handicapped/disturbed people. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a book that explains why a patient shows signs of loss, excess, transport and simplicity. Coincidentally, the book opens with the title story, allowing the reader to explore the mind of an accomplished doctor who seems to have lost his true outlook on life. In the following context, the seriousness of the stories and their failures in interpretation should only allow a better understanding of the real workings of the human mind, always so questionable, from a professional point of view, expressed in simple words. Wife for a Hat" is a quite interesting story which opens the reader of the book into a world of confusion: the world of Dr. P.. The man, described in the story, is an accomplished doctor, in fact a professor in a accomplished music school who appears fine from the outside, but upon further analysis in Dr. Sacks' office, he mistakes his foot for his shoe. It's a stunning mistake that intrigues the doctor and the reader as to why. he confuses objects with other objects He then later, as he and his wife are getting ready to leave, Dr. P. grabs his wife's head and tries to remove it as if it were; of his hat. Later, Dr. Sacks visits the couple at their home to try to better understand the situation. Dr. Sacks interrogates him with cartoons, with people on television and even using images on his screen. walls Dr. P. only recognizes a few faces among those hanging on his walls. It's quite shocking for the doctor; Mrs. P. then found herself...... middle of paper...... after spring, the branches now had foliage. José always had a talent for nature and its qualities, but because he showed these signs of personality and character, was he really autistic? The answer has never been fully discovered, but presumably not, but that he suffered a traumatic experience around the age of 8, which is when he officially became autistic. Although the book has many stories to tell, all with something in common but with a different characteristic, the purpose of the book was to not only educate the world about these situations, but also to give us real-life scenarios that we can identify us all in one way or another. This book is about the human mind and the abstraction of our visions and memories. Everything affects us physically and mentally. We all share a common characteristic; we are all simply human with a simple human mind.