Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former Clinical Director of Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital in London. He has been a neuroimaging researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He is the author of *Against Criticism*, *The Master and his Emissary: ​​The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning*, and *Why Are We So Unhappy?*