Israel Rosenfield received an M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a professor at the City University of New York and his books include The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain (Basic Books, 1988) and the satirical novel Freud's 'Megalomania' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. His review of Oliver Sack's book, The Mind's Eye will appear in the April issue of Harper's Magazine.

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