Nationality British Role Writer | Name Iain McGilchrist Occupation Psychiatrist, writer | |
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Books The Master and His Emissary, Against criticism | ||
Age of wonder iain mcgilchrist march 30th 2014
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, doctor, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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- Age of wonder iain mcgilchrist march 30th 2014
- Iain mcgilchrist the divided brain interview by iain mcnay
- Selected works
- References
McGilchrist read English at New College, Oxford, but having published Against Criticism in 1982, he later retrained in medicine and has been a neuroimaging researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in south London. McGilchrist is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and has three times been elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
According to his web site, McGilchrist currently works privately as a consultant psychiatrist in London, and otherwise lives on the Isle of Skye, off the coast of Scotland.