Phantoms in the Brain

V. S. RAMACHANDRAN and the science journalist Sandra Blakeslee on what neurological damage reveals about the ordinary mind — phantom limbs, neglect, denial, the varieties of self-deception the brain is capable of. Copyright 1998; hardcover published that year by William Morrow; this copy is the FIRST QUILL EDITION, 1999. ISBN 0-688-17217-2; designed by Paul Chevannes. FOREWORD BY OLIVER SACKS. Its chapters on aphasia, on the naming of things and on what patients say when the brain’s account of itself breaks down are what earn it a place beside the linguistics here.