Oliver Sacks is a famous British neurologist and neuropsychologist, the author of a number of popular books translated into twenty languages, two of which - “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” and “An Anthropologist on Mars” - became international bestsellers. “The Man Who Mistook My Wife for a Hat" - a book written by Oliver Sacks back in 1971 and which has since gone through about ten reprints in English alone, not to mention numerous translations, is the story of modern people trying to overcome serious and unusual mental disorders and struggling for survival in conditions completely unimaginable for healthy people, and about the mystics of the past, obsessed with visions that modern science confidently diagnoses as a manifestation of severe neuroses. The strange, incomprehensible relationship between the brain and consciousness is explained in an accessible, lively and interesting way.