Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent [...]

Med udgangspunkt i en enkelt patient og hans dagbøger, giver Luria en populærvidenskabelig indføring i neuropsykologien.[...]