Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.

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.

He has published original research on neuroimaging in schizophrenia, the phenomenology of schizophrenia, and other topics, and contributed chapters to books on a wide range of subjects, as well as original articles in papers and journals, including the British Journal of Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, Religion, Brain and Behavior [a special issue on his work], Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, The BMJ, The Lancet, The TLS, The London Review of Books, The LA Review of Books, The Listener, The Literary Review, Essays in Criticism, The Modern Language Review, The English Historical Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times on topics in literature, medicine, psychiatry and philosophy.

He has taken part in many radio and TV programmes and documentaries, including the BBC’s The Moral Maze, Start the Week, and Today, as well as their series In Doubt We Trust, NPR’s The Hidden Brain, WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show, ABC’s All in the Mind, TVO’s The Agenda, the BBC’s Soul Searching by David Malone, and his Heart vs Mind, Angel TV’s Animate Earth, Pat Collins’s What We Leave In Our Wake, the feature film Innsaei – The Sea Within by Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir, Bruce Parry’s feature film, Tawai: A Voice from the Forest, and recently a Canadian full-length feature film about his work, The Divided Brain. He has numerous podcasts, and interviews on YouTube, among them dialogues with Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom, Rowan Williams, John Cleese and philosopher Tim Freke, as well as lectures, seminars and commentaries.