theresa_glover 's review for:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

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For a beginning psychology student, aspects of this book were a little over my head, though I understood the concepts being presented. Part of the drawback to listening to this as an audiobook was that I didn't always have the ability to whip out a dictionary (or app), make a note of or Google the things I needed more information on or didn't understand. Even without complete understanding of the clinical terms, the book is well written and entertaining enough to keep me interested. I enjoyed the stories of abnormal psych case studies and found them engaging, human, and differences aside, relatable. I look forward to revisiting it when I have a better understanding of the technical, clinical aspects of these illnesses because I'm sure I'll get more out of it. One of the things that disturbed me, but not enough to put it aside, were the common use of words that are currently more pejorative in nature being used to describe the mentally ill. I wrote about that more in my blog, though. Take a peek when you have a chance.