He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer who practiced in London, but now lives on the Isle of Skye, where he continues to write and make a living by lecturing. With the clock ticking on critical issues, he must make his case and find ways to restore the balance before it’s too late?Īuthor, "The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" McGilchrist knows that if he is right, we may be creating the technologies and the conditions that will spell our own downfall. Has our society been hijacked by the left hemisphere? This half of the brain is very proficient at creating technologies, procedures and systems, but it cannot understand the implications of these on the people and the world around it. He believes that one half of our brain – the left hemisphere – is slowly taking power, and that we in the Western world are simultaneously feeding its ambitions. McGilchrist is a soft-spoken British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who may have uncovered an insidious problem with the way our brains function. Iain McGilchrist on a journey of discovery as he travels to meet his champions and critics and defends his vision on the implications of his theory. THE DIVIDED BRAIN is a mind-altering odyssey about one man’s quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social issues ones that shape our very future as a species. Iain McGilchrist and Jill Bolte Taylor with Jill’s collection of brain sculptures.
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