Dr Gordon Barclay took a peripatetic route into psychiatry via Sinology, investment banking, general practice/family medicine (MRCGP) and internal medicine (MRCP), and after many happy years as a general adult consultant psychiatrist in the NHS (National Health Service) based on the west coast of Scotland, now works in private practice in Glasgow.  He has trained in many psychotherapy modalities, and was a trainer in two other modalities before developing TDS (Towards a Dialectical Self), as a radically relational, embodied integrative psychotherapy created to work effectively with psychological trauma and dissociation.