The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Written by: Dr. Oliver Sacks Although the title suggests a comic, Oliver Sacks presents an entirely different look at mentally disabled/disturbed. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a book that explains why a patient shows signs of loss, excess, transportation and simplicity. Coincidentally, the book opens with the title story, allowing the reader to explore the mind of a medical expert who seems to have lost true insight into life. In the context that follows, the seriousness of the stories and their interpretive breaks should only lead to a better understanding of how the ever-so-questionable human mind really works from a professional perspective expressed in simple words. The story of "The Man Who Mistook His "Wife by Hat" is a rather interesting story that opens the reader of the book into a world of confusion - the world of Dr. P.. The man, described in the story, is a doctor expert, actually a teacher at an established music school who appears fine outwardly, but upon further analysis in Dr. Sacks' office, mistakes his foot for his shoe is a surprising mistake that intrigues the doctor and the reader to know why he confuses objects with other objects. Then later, as he and his wife prepare to leave; Dr. P. grabs his wife's head and tries to take it off her as if it were her hat he visits the couple at their home to try to better understand the situation. Dr. Sacks questions him with cartoons, television characters and even using the photos hanging on his walls. Dr. P. only recognizes some of the faces hanging on its own walls. This is quite shocking to the doctor; Mrs. P. then ca......middle of paper......ter to spring, the branches now had foliage. José has always had a talent for nature and its qualities, but since he showed these signs of personality and character was he truly autistic? The answer has never been fully discovered but it is to be believed that he was not, but that he suffered a traumatic experience around the age of 8, when he officially became autistic. Although the book has many stories to tell, all with something in common but at the same time with a different characteristic, the purpose of the book was not only to educate the world about these situations, but also to provide us with real scenarios that we can all relate to in some sort of fashion. This book talks about the human mind and the abstractness of our visions and memories. Everything affects us physically and mentally. We all share a common characteristic; we are all simply human with simple human minds.