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Discusses numerous cases of people with severe mental handicaps who nonetheless possess amazing memory, mathematical, artistic, or musical talents, offering new research and theories about the phenomenon of the "idiot savant"
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Dr. Darold Treffert has studied Savant Syndrome as a psychiatrist for over 35 years and is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert on this extraordinary condition. His work has had wide distribution in a variety of media. He was a consultant to the movie Rain Man.
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"Readers will share the author's feelings of bewildered awe as they meet the 'extraordinary people' and the families who help these phenomenally gifted, but otherwise cruelly deprived, savants," reported PW. Author tour.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0345365844
- ISBN 13 9780345365842
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages357
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