Iain McGilchrist M.D. 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 was a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, medicine and psychiatry.  His latest book, published by Yale in November 2009, is The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

It's a very ambitious, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book in which he suggests that Western cultures has been shaped been dominated by left-hemispheric thinking.  Highly recommended reading/listening!

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David Van Nuys PhD

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