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

The old man suddenly became intent, his brows knitted, his lips pursed. he stood motionless, in deep thought, presenting the picture that I love to see: a patient in the actual moment of discovery – half appalled, half amused – seeing for the first time exactly what is wrong and, in the same moment, exactly what there is to be done. This is the therapeutic moment.

“A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being… It is here… you may touch him, and see a profound change.” - Luria

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all… Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.” - Luis Buñuel