Anthony Storr was born in 1920 and educated at Winchester, Christ's College, Cambridge, and at Westminster Hospital.

 He qualified as a doctor in 1944, and subsequendy specialized in psychiatry.

 His other publications include The Integrity of the Personality (1960), Human Destructiveness (1972),Jung (1973), The Dynamics of Creation (1972), The Art of Psychotherapy (1979), Solitude (1988), Freud (1989) and Music and the Mind (1992). He has contributed reviews and articles to many papers, including the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent. Dr Storr is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is also Honorary Consulting Psychiatrist to the Oxfordshire Health Authority, and an Emeritus Fellow of Green College, Oxford.

from the reviews:

'Illuminating. . . It will be impossible to look at gurus in the same light again after reading this book.' ANDREW BROWN , Spectator

'A fascinating overview. . . Storr's great strengths as a writer are the sensitivity with which he applies his experience as a practising psychiatrist to cultural phenomena, and his ability to synthesise elegandy, with an apt use of quotation, what previous thinkers have written on the subject.' ADAM  LIVELY, TES

'An illuminating examination of a complex subject - the human need for spiptualleadership, and why it makes us so susceptible to fakery. MARY LOUDON, The Times

'Anthony Storr's gift is to make the incomprehensible comprehensible, and to do it in a way that is provocative, eloquent and illuminating. KAY REDFIELD JAMI SON

'Anthony Storr's study of gurus is insightful and inspiring, but, above all, compassionate.' FRANK EGERTON, Oxford Times

(Note: Recently I heard from a friend that few years ago Anthony Storr passed away. I am afraid I don’t know the exact date. Masoud)