Iain McGilchrist is a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a research fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of pub-lications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine, and psychiatry. McGilchrist is the author of 'Against Criticism' (Faber, 1982), 'The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World'(Yale, 2009), 'The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why Are We So Unhappy?' (Yale, 2012), and is currently working on a project entitled 'When the Porcupine Is a Monkey', to be published by Penguin. He lives on the Isle of Skye.
