Stuart Sutherland, born in 1928, was Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex where he founded the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology. A prolific columnist and contributor to theObserver, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph, and is best known for his iconoclastic bookIrrationality, which was first published in 1992, and Breakdown, his candid and movingly personal account of his manic depression, due to be reissued by Pinter & Martin early 2010.
He died of a heart attack in 1998.