In response to:

A Summer of Madness from the September 25, 2008 issue

To the Editors:

I am of course delighted with the very kind remarks Professor Oliver Sacks made about my work [“A Summer of Madness,” NYR, September 25]. One correction: I am a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. Thank you.

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland