Hallucinations
by:
Oliver Sacks (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781447208259 (1447208250)
ASIN: 1447208250
Publish date: November 8th 2012
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Brain
Hallucinations was just not up to snuff for Oliver Sacks— actually, it made me question just how much I would like Sacks' work were I to read it today, having been exposed to a breadth of narrative science writing in the years since I first read his essays. Sacks presents hallucinations (forms of ...
bookshelves: summer-2014, history, nonfiction, published-2012, sciences, psychology Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brain Pickings Read from July 13 to 23, 2014 Read more of this article from Brain Pickings "While our delusions may keep us sane, hallucinations — defined as perceptions that arise ind...
"An hallucination is a strictly sensational form of consciousness, as good and true a sensation as if there were a real object there. The object happens to be not there, that is all." - Wiliam James People hallucinate for a lot of different reasons, and neurologist Oliver Sacks explores a number ...
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