Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, author, and former Oxford literary scholar, known for his work on the lateralized brain. His book 'The Master and His Emissary' discusses the dominance of the left hemisphere in Western societies.
Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, author, and former Oxford literary scholar. He is best known for his work on the lateralized brain in ‘The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World’. McGilchrist argues that the left hemisphere of the brain has become overly dominant in Western societies, leading to a distortion of experience.
