“The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical stories” Losses, excesses, transports and the world of the simple are all the four subjects in the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales", by Oliver Sacks. You may not understand what this means or discuss it until you realize who Oliver Sacks is. Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who had the chance to take these twenty-four case studies and share them in a book. The book focuses more on neurological functions, different forms of the mind, and hallucinations/visions. All of these elements are linked to the first chapters of our psychology textbook (chapters 2,3,6,8,10). Oliver Sacks gives us a clear insight into the minds of those who perceive things very differently than most. It's a clear overview of what most of us are interested in but may not fully understand. In the book there are four main ideas: losses, excesses, transportation and the world of the simple. Each of these categories contains its own news. These are real cases encountered by Oliver Sacks. He met a ...