Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on mind and body illnesses

Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon, who has written two bestsellers about his work, Do No Harm and Admissions.

Now retired from his full-time job with the NHS, he continues to ply his trade in Nepal and Ukraine.

These days he is reflecting more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him.

The excerpt below is taken from Admissions.

My life as a neurosurgeon was to teach me that the distinction between physical and psychological illness is false - at least, that illnesses of the mind are not less real than those of the body, and no less deserving of our help.