Summary: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

In the novel, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, endorsed that even a small damage to the brain may result in a very big complication. The variety of disorders that was discussed was: Losses, Excesses, Transports, and the World of Simple. All of the cases that were provided showed all the different kind of disorders that patients had to deal with in their everyday routine. The first disorder, Losses, is the denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function. The patient, Dr. P was described as a well-known singer who taught at the local School of Music as a teacher. Dr. P suffered from a disorder called visual agnosia. While working at school, there were many instances that Dr. P did not recognize his students’ faces and lost the ability to recognize faces

One specific disorder, Tourette syndrome is the excess of nervous energy and a great production and extravagance of strange motions and notions. (Sacks, 92) A patient, Ray has been experiencing tics or spasms since he was four years old. These tics affected Ray’s social life because he frequently cried out, “ involuntary cries of “Fuck! Shit! And so on, which would burst from him at times of sexual excitement” (Sacks, 97). Although, this was a disadvantage, Ray was “remarkably musical, .. famous for his sudden and wild extemporisations, which would arise from a tic…” Like other Touretters, Ray was gifted with being skilled at playing ping pong because of his “abnormal quickness of reflex and reaction” (Sacks, 97). These tics that Ray experienced affected him constantly and every