Robin S. Rosenberg is a clinical psychologist in private
practice and has taught psychology courses at Lesley
University and Harvard University. In addition, she
is coauthor (with Stephen Kosslyn) of Psychology in
Context and Fundamentals of Psychology in Context.
She is the editor of Psychology of Superheroes and a
contributor to The Psychology of Harry Potter
andBatman Unauthorized. She is board certifi ed in
clinical psychology by the American Board of
Professional Psychology, and has been certifi ed in
clinical hypnosis; she is a fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology and
a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. She received her B.A. in psychology
from New York University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the
University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Rosenberg completed her clinical internship
at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and had a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard
Community Health Plan before joining the staff at Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s
Outpatient Services, where she worked before leaving to expand her private practice.
Dr. Rosenberg specializes in treating people with depression, anxiety, and eating
disorders, and she is interested in the integration of different therapy approaches.
She was the founder and coordinator of the New England Society for Psychotherapy
Integration. Dr. Rosenberg enjoys using superhero stories to illustrate psychological
principles and can sometimes be found at comic book conventions.Stephen M. Kosslyn is the John Lindsley Professor
of Psychology and former chair of the Department of
Psychology at Harvard University, as well as former
Head Tutor (directing the undergraduate program in
Psychology). He currently is Dean of Social Science
at Harvard as well as Associate Psychologist in the
Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. He received a B.A. from UCLA and
a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in psychology.
His research has focused primarily on the nature of visual mental imagery, visual
perception, and visual communication; he has authored or coauthored 9 books and
over 300 papers on these topics. Kosslyn has received the APA’s Boyd R. McCandless
Young Scientist Award, the National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research
Award, the Cattell Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the J-L. Signoret Prize (France),
and an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Caen (France), and
he has been elected to Academia Rodinensis pro Remediatione (Switzerland), the
Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Kosslyn works hard, but not every waking moment; his hobbies are bass
guitar (he has played rock-and-roll and blues with the same group for many years)
and French (he has struggled with the language ever since living in France for a year
in 1996).ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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