- Consultant Psychiatrist and former Medical Director, Priory Hospital, Hayes Grove
- Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist and former Clinical Director, Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, London
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2002 to 2004)
- Research Fellow, Neuro-imaging, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (1992)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1991)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1975 to 1982)
- Scholar, New College, Oxford (from 1972 to 1975)
- Psychiatry (cerebral hemispheres and the relationship between neuropsychology, phenomenology and art)
- The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale University Press, 2009)
- Against Criticism (Faber and Faber, 1982)