Robert Maxwell Young

Robert M. Young, PhD, was born in Dallas, Texas, and studied Philosophy at Yale and Medical Sciences at Rochester. He won a fellowship to Cambridge, where he did doctoral research on the history of ideas of mind and brain and taught history and philosophy of the biomedical and human sciences. He then made television documentaries for a time, set up Free Association Books, went into analysis, and trained as a psychotherapist. He is currently Professor of Psychotherapy and psychoanalytic studies at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. His publications include Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture (1985); Mind, Brain and Adaptation (1990); and Mental Space (1994).