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The work of the internationally renowned
author and neurologist, Oliver Sacks, has been central in helping us understand
how the mind works. His book Awakenings (1973),
about patients caught for decades in a frozen state, inspired the
Oscar-nominated film of the same name.
Sacks grew up in London and his marvellous
memoir, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001), won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate
Prize.
In conversation with Ned Temko, he talks
about the influence of Sigmund Freud and the power of memory to shape identity.
Oliver Sacks is Clinical Professor of
Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of
Neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.
Ned Temko has been editor of the Jewish
Chronicle since 1990. He is the author of To Win or to Die (1987), a biography of Menachem Begin.
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