Thomas W. Hodgkinson

Physician, heal thyself

Neuropsychologist A.K. Benjamin’s self-exposure is a striptease – and a fascinating one

The journalist Auberon Waugh, in whose time-capsule of a flat I briefly lived in 2000, once summed up what he took to be the primary motivations for writing books. ‘With women, there is this tremendous desire to expose themselves. With men, it is more often an obscure form of revenge.

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