Abstract
A jack of many trades, and a master of several, Dan Stein, Professor and Chair of psychiatry at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is a psychiatric polymath. After training in psychiatry he completed a fellowship in psychopharmacology, as well as doctorates in both clinical neuroscience and philosophy. There is a parable attributed to the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, the subject of an essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox, by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Borrowing from the precept: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”, Stein reflects: “I think about and try to problem solve a range of different things; I seem not to have the patience or the ability to focus on a single topic”.
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