I have been asked to introduce myself to you by saying something about my background and interests. I was born and grew up in Lancaster, a very old city in the northwest of England, just south of the Lake District, which fortunately for me has a very good grammar school and some strong poetic connections. I left the north to go to University College, London, where I did my medical studies. Unfortunately, the schism between science and the arts in English education in those days meant that I had to leave my favorite subject of English literature behind at school. These two strands in my thinking, of biology and literature, were only fully reunited when I took up psychoanalysis. Before that, however, I had worked in medicine, studied neurology, and practiced both adult and child psychiatry.