Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Cognitive Psychology
- The man who couldnt forget: the story of Solomon Shereshevsky (S)
- The man who lived for the present: the story of H.M. (Henry Gustav Molaison)
- The man who was disappointed by what he saw: the story of S.B.
- Kim Peek: The real Rain Man
- Holly Ramona and the nature of memory
Part 2: Social Psychology
- The girl who cried murder: the story of Catherine Kitty Genovese
- Jonestown and the dangers of obedience
- The end of the world is nigh: the case of Dorothy Martin
- Bad apples or bad barrels?: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and Stanford University
Part 3: Developmental psychology
- Innocence lost: the story of Genie
- The boy who was never a girl: the story of David Reimer
- The Wild Boy of Aveyron: the story of Victor
- Two little boys: The story of Little Albert and Little Peter
- The Jim Twins: Identical yet raised apart
Part 4: Individual differences
- The boy who needed to play: the story of Dibs
- The man who was turned on by prams and handbags