The man who confused his wife for a hat6/10/2023 Although apparently his wife thought it was normal because she seemed to think there was nothing strange about her husband trying to wear her head. As you can imagine, this tends to cause problems. For example, he could describe a hand as an object with five long protrusions from it, but he had no idea what he was looking at until someone told him. Although nothing seemed to be wrong with his actual vision, somehow he lost his ability to recognize objects as what they were. This wasn’t just a one-time lapse, though. This is not what your wife should look like… (Don’t worry… he didn’t actually succeed. Super creative, right?Īnyhow, you have to admit it takes either a serious case of absent-mindedness or something at least a little abnormal in your brain to try to pick up your wife’s head and try to put it on like a hat. So, a few years ago, I read a book called “ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (and Other Clinical Tales),” (written by a psychologist who detailed his patients’ various disorders) and shockingly, the first story is about… a man who mistook his wife for a hat. So, to start off my psychology blog, I thought I would talk about one of the more… different cases in psychology
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