Journal Entry 1 by DeeKay57 from Tweed Heads, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, August 05, 2009

for a special person for their special month....amberC enjoy 

Journal Entry 2 by DeeKay57 at Southern Cross Exchange, Exchange -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (8/7/2009 UTC) at Southern Cross Exchange, Exchange -- Controlled Releases

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enjoy! 

Journal Entry 3 by amberC from Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Thankyou. The book and postcard arrived today. I've been wanting to read this for a while. 

Journal Entry 4 by amberC at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Wednesday, November 03, 2010

An interesting collection of stories of individuals with neurological deficits that highlight and clarify how the normal brain works. The author approaches his study with a compassion for his patient's troubled existence, and where the patients are content with their lot, he prudently leaves well enough alone, something not all MD's are willing to do. He also appreciates what his patients have to teach him about life and even about the practice of medicine itself. His ability to learn from others considered "unfortunate" or mentally "defective" makes the book a very insightful work.

My favorite tale is "Rebecca," in which Dr. Sacks shows that a person of defective intelligence--a "moron"--is still a person with a sense of beauty and with something to give to the world. Sacks generously (and brilliantly) shows how Rebecca taught him the limitations of a purely clinical approach to diagnosis and treatment. Although the child-like 19-year-old didn't have the intelligence to "find her way around the block" or "open a door with a key," Rebecca had an emotional understanding of life superior to many adults. She loved her grandmother deeply and when she died, Rebecca expressed her feelings to Sacks, "I'm crying for me, not for her...She's gone to her Long Home." She added, poetically, "I'm so cold. It's not outside, it's winter inside. Cold as death...She was a part of me. Part of me died with her". Rebecca goes on to show Dr. Sacks that they pay "far too much attention to the defects of...patients...and far too little to what is intact or preserved". Rebecca was tired of the meaningless classes and workshops and odd jobs. "What I really love...is the theatre," she said. Sacks writes that the theatre "composed her...she became a complete person, poised, fluent, with style, in each role.

Travelling with another book.
 

Journal Entry 5 by AnonymousFinder at Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Received it from AmberC! Thank you! 

Journal Entry 6 by bemaia at Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Received this book from amberC for the BookObsessed JOE exchanged.
Thank you!