Professor Richard Kanaan studied mathematics and philosophy in Oxford and Los Angeles, before training in medicine and psychiatry in London. He was a clinician and academic at the Maudsley Hospital/Institute of Psychiatry in London until he was appointed Chair of Psychiatry at Austin Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne in 2013. His special interests include functional syndromes, schizophrenia and the philosophy of psychiatry. He started the first functional neurology clinic at King’s College Hospital in London, and the first functional neurology clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne