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Oliver Sacks

Neurologist and writer

United Kingdom · 1933–2015

British neurologist who spent most of his career in New York, working with patients at Beth Abraham Hospital and later teaching at Columbia and NYU. His case histories, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, made clinical neurology a literary subject.

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Question What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it?

And I spent four years at a boarding school in the country, probably a rather abusive boarding school, and seeing very little of my parents, and that was a very bad time for me. A bad and almost a mad time. ... I think that some sort of trust, and ability for closeness, may have been compromised. And I think I’ve perhaps, to some extent, sort of kept a distance since that time, although this is not a distance I feel with my patients or my students.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 17 June 2000 source ↗

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