Professor Femi Oyebode MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Hon) studied medicine at the University of Ibadan, graduating with distinction in 1977. He trained as a psychiatrist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham since 1999. His books include Mindreadings: literature and psychiatry, Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind- textbook of descriptive psychopathology 4-7th editions and Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016 and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (the highest honour of the RCPsych) in 2019.