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The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Woundby A. R. Luria
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:Zasetsky... in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain... He could not even have written his journal--3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appalling effort over a quarter of a century-had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination. Review:Zasetsky... in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain... He could not even have written his journal--3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appallingeffort over a quarter of a century-had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination. Review:A noted Russian neuropsychologist shares the remarkable story of his 25-year treatment of a young soldier who, in the aftermath of a serious wound, was forced to relearn even the simplest mental activities...The book emerges as an intriguing glimpse into the workings of the human brain--and an eloquent testament to one man's determination...Another of Luria's case histories, The Mind of a Mnemonist...traces the kafkaesque experiences of a man with such an extraordinary memory that he has difficulty forgetting anything. Review:The Soviet psychologist Aleksandr R. Luria (1902-77) describes the life and personality of a man (known as 'S') who was found to have a literally limitless memory and whose burden was that he was able to forget things only by an act of will...The same publisher reissuedThe Man with the Shattered World, Luria's study of a young soldier who suffers a catastrophic head injury and has to relearn almost everything. In 1973 one reviewer called it an intriguing and 'valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain.' Both are translated by Lynn Solotaroff. Review:This is an important and remarkable book--the product of the relationship between two remarkable men, one a world authority on the brain, the other his unfortunate brain-damaged patient...Luria has created a fascinating and valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain for both the general reader and the scientist. This little book will become a classic. About the AuthorThe late A. R.Luriawas professor of Psychology, <>University of Moscow. Table of Contents
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