Warren Mansell nearly became a hard scientist with his first degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, but unexpectedly developed into a soft one and turned to Psychology instead. After a brief sojourn in the real world (publishing), he escaped to the dreaming spires of Oxford where he attempted the Experimental Method (that is to say he did a PhD, or a D.Phil in the case of Oxford who have to be different). A different training in London as a ¬clinical psychologist followed. At 'The Institute' (or IOP), he was surrounded by erudite psychiatrists who enlightened him about the...