Autor/-in: Peter Lantos

By the age of 30, PETER LANTOS. had survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was beaten by the Communist police in Hungary, qualified in medicine, defected to England, sentenced to imprisonment for this "crime" in his absence and had established a career in academic medicine in London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life he was an internationally known clinical neuroscientist who has retired from a Chair at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. After retirement, it was his childhood experiences that gave him the impetus to write Parallel Lines. He is also the author of a novel, Closed Horizon. , and a trilogy of plays, collectively entitled Stolen Lives. He lives in London. www. peter-lantos. com. Lisa Appignanesi is the author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors, and Freud's Women (. with John Forrester), alongside many other books. She was Chair of the Freud Museum London, President of English PEN and is currently Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was appointed OBE in 2013