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The Man with a Shattered World

by A. R. Luria

  • FINISHED
  • Finished September 2025
  • First published 1972

neurology case histories brain disorders

Luria presents the case of a soldier whose brain was damaged by a bullet, based on the patient’s own writing.   It shows how he lost language and perception and slowly rebuilt parts of both.