Saxby Pridmore

Saxby Pridmore is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He was born at the end of the Second World War. In addition to psychiatry, he has specialist qualifications in addiction, pain management, neurology and public health. He was a champion boxer and is a successful poet. He was plagued by dyslexia and suffered head injury as a child. Home life was not easy, but he went on to achieve a successful academic career. He is married to Mary the Great and has two ‘excellent’ children. In 2006 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia.

“It might sound as if I’m feeling sorry for myself, but I’m not. I’m feeling grateful. These are the facts/events of a time.”