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Oliver Sacks’ ‘Musicophilia’: Music is Cure and Curse [SF Chronicle]

November 5, 2007

Oliver Sacks’ ‘Musicophilia’: Music is Cure and Curse [SF Chronicle]

[San Francisco Chronicle; November 2, 2007]

Who is the most important person in your local hospital? Seek – or, rather, listen – and ye shall find, according to Oliver Sacks.

Leading a documentary crew through his Bronx psychiatric hospital posting in 1973, as the distinguished psychiatrist-author recalls in his new study, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” the film’s director declared, “Can I meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here.”

Sacks…

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