It might seem strange… how is it even possible to think your wife’s head is a hat and not realize there is something wrong with you? Well, probably because he had a familiar daily routine and he could do most things and get around his house just because he knew where everything was, so he managed to get around just fine. So maybe that was part of the reason that he didn’t actually know something was wrong with him, he just thought he had a sudden surge of absentmindedness which is why he visited the author of the book in the first place. 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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