Iain mcgilchrist biography definition

British psychiatrist and writer

Iain McGilchristFRSA (born 1953^[1]) is a British psychiatrist,^[2]literary scholar, philosopher and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.^[2][3][4]

He is a Quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; a former associate fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford; an emeritus consultant at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital in south London, a former research fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and a former fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.^[5] McGilchrist is retired, though he continues to work as an independent scholar from his home on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.^[6]

In 2021, McGilchrist published a new book of neuroscience, epistemology and metaphysics called The Matter with Things.^[7][6]