Norman Doidge, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet.

He is a training and supervising analyst (a trainer of psychoanalysts) at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis.

For thirty years he was on faculty at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry, and Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, in New York.

He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers including “The Brain That Changes Itself” and “The Brain’s Way of Healing.” He lives in Toronto.