ABSTRACT
There are many other things I could have included in this book. I will say a little about some of the events which deserve a mention. I won many prizes and honours during my career, the first being the May Davidson award, which I mentioned in Chapter 5. This award was from the BPS – The British Psychological Society (Division of Clinical Psychology) for a major contribution to Clinical Psychology within ten years of qualification. I was made a fellow of the BPS in 1987. From 1996–1998 I was chair of the British Neuropsychological Society, the society that Narinder Kapur and I founded in 1989. One of the biggest awards was an OBE (Order of the British Empire), which I received in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. This is covered in Chapter 6. A number of awards and honours followed, including the Vice-Chair of United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum in 1998–1999. In 2000 I was awarded The British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology; I became a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001, followed one year later by being voted a fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and the “Professional of the year award” from the Encephalitis support group in 2003. Then in 2004 I won the book of the year award from the BPS for my book, Case Studies in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, which had actually been published in 1999 although the reviews came out later. I was at a meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in the United States when I heard from the BPS that I had been shortlisted for the award and they needed four copies of the book immediately. I went to Jeffrey House, the American publisher, to tell him and ask for four copies of the book to send to the BPS. He refused! I was shocked as I thought he would see it as an honour. Instead I contacted the British side of the publishing house, Oxford University Press, and the senior man there said he would send four copies straight away to the BPS. I actually won the book of the year award and I hope Jeffrey House felt guilty for not sending four copies of 138the book. I have received two honorary degrees, one from The University of East Anglia in 2005 and one from the University of Cordoba in Argentina in 2014. I was also the first non-American to win The Robert L Moody Prize for Distinguished Contributions in Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Research. This was given in Galveston, Texas in 2006. I remember that, at the dinner hosted for the award winner and other attendees, I sat next to a man defending capital punishment in the United States. He said, it certainly deterred him from killing! I thought we have not had capital punishment in Great Britain since 1965 and we have a far lower murder rate than the United States. In any case, personal morals should stop one killing others, we do not need capital punishment to prevent killing.
