Allison Heckethorn’s Reviews > The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales > Status Update

“Perhaps there is a philosophical as well as a clinical lesson here: that in Kirsakov’s, or dementia, or other such catastrophes, however great the organic damage and Humean dissolution, there remains the undiminished possibility of reintegration by art, by communion, by touching the human spirit: and this can be preserved in what seems at first a hopeless state of neurological devastation.”