*Review in Retrospect*

Luria makes better, but fewer, readable patient case studies than Oliver Sacks. Luria was the first 'neuropsychologist' and he seems to be figuring out the condition rather than poetically redescribing it as has every other modern clinician-patient story. It's sad really, there is more care and less ego here but it receives less attention. I think this was the most interesting case study I have ever read (even more so than people that believe they are vampires), this man had pure word blindness so he could write but not read and not remember very well either so he had to write everything and get people to tell him what he wrote so he would by chance ask it to be read and then realise he had once wrote it for him to remember in the future. Just trying to imagine that makes my head spin, and Luria does a good job of getting you there.