The second part of a conversation between the renowned literary scholar and psychiatrist Dr Iain McGilchrist and Ralston College president Dr Stephen Blackwood about Dr McGilchrist's remarkable educational trajectory.

In this episode, Dr Iain McGilchrist explains how he left his successful career as a literary scholar to pursue training as a psychiatrist and how his combined study of literature, philosophy, and neuroscience informed his later academic work, including his books The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale University Press, 2009) and The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (Perspectiva, 2021).

List of people referenced in this episode:

Ted Hughes
William Wordsworth
Samuel Johnson
John Boswell
Laurence Sterne
William Shakespeare
Oliver Sacks
John Cutting
Louis Sass
Jan Zwicky
Robert Bringhurst
Erwin Schrödinger
Martin Heidegger
Max Planck
Niels Bohr
Michael Levin

The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part II: Medical School and Beyond

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The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part II: Medical School and Beyond