Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books


‘…Sacks spent decades in therapy exploring why he couldn’t stop embellishing. He called his writing “symbolic autobiography” — projecting his own psychological conflicts onto patients. The healer who saw the hidden genius in broken minds was, in some sense, trying to heal himself through fiction he labeled fact.…’ (Ellsworth Toohey via Boing Boing)

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