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Recently I watched one of the most fascinating interviews I have seen for a long time. True, I began with a positive bias as the interview was conducted by Danielle Ofri, and she was talking to Oliver Sacks about his hallucinations and other intriguing brain, mind, and people insights. These two doctors and writers are at the top of my favourite lists for both occupations. It was a lovely inter...
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Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology
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Trouble In Mind: Stories From A Neuropsychologist's Casebook
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Extract from “Trouble In Mind: Stories From A Neuropsychologist’s Casebook” by Jenni Ogden (OUP, 2012) (Nonfiction)
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The opening pages of Chapter 6, the story of a young man who made the most of his life following a severe head injury, in spite of losing his ability to recognize faces or objects, and losing his memory for his past.
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'Why Sir, if you have but one book with you upon a journey let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you, but a book of science is inexhaustible'. This quote of Samuel Johnson’s...more |
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| Sebastian Faulks is one of my favourite writers and his breadth of style is mind-boggling. This book had a certain fascination and as always was masterfully written, but it didn't quite come together for me. The many disparate characters, all cleverl...more | |
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| Rose Tremain is a good writer but I wasn't drawn into her characters in this story. Her settings were beautifully felt but the story didn't engage me any more than the characters. | |
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| Mediocre book about very little! Not sure why I finished it. But it was one of those books languishing on my shelves (a real book and not an e-version). I suppose I hoped it might improve. | |
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| Wonderful, engrossing book. She is a master writer, and this is almost a 5 star for me. My only minor negative was that I thought the birth of Ursula was re-lived too often at the beginning of the book. But once into her story, I was hooked. The prol...more | |
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Jenni, I appreciate your friend request and the giggles you provided me.
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