The author of Being a mother is a professor of psychology at the University of Strathclyde, author of The Growth of Sociability (The development of sociability) and editor of The Origins of Human Social Relationships (The origins of human social relations) and Studies in mother-lnfant lnteractions (Studies of mother-child relationships). He has worked as a research psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic and as a clinical psychologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. It has been favored with research grants in the United States and Israel and is known worldwide for his studies of early social development.