![]() ![]() Sacks (1987) writes not only about the diagnosis of patients but also about his thoughts, associations, and perceptions from the first meeting with a person as well as how the treatment worked on him or her. The body is perceived as a foreign appendage. When she takes her eyes from her hand in which she holds the spoon, the latter immediately falls. ![]() For example, the disappearance of joint-muscle feelings, when one of the patients does not feel his body may be noted. These pathologies are so strange for the human perception that they sometimes seem to be impossible. On the pages of the mentioned book, there are several stories about those who suffer from a split personality, experience phantom pains, or do not feel connected with their body, but each of them may be engaged in creativity (Halliwell, 2016). Oliver Sacks, an American neuropsychologist, focuses on his patients in a fascinating and accessible form by describing the stories of people who have encountered some mental damage, be it hallucinations or more complex disorders. ![]()
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