Carlos Castilla del Pino was born in 1922 in San Roque, Cádiz. For five years he worked in
Madrid´s Ramón y Cajal Institute until he became director of the Psychiatric
Clinic of Córdoba in 1949. In this city he has also been head of the Department
of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine. He is a tireless traveller and will
go wherever it is required in order to share his knowledge. As an essayist of
international prestige, he is the author of a considerable amount of works
among which are: Un estudio sobre la depresión (A Study on Depression,1966),
La Culpa (Guilt, 1968), Psicoánalisis y marxismo (Psychoanalysis and
Marxism, 1969), La incomunicación (Lack of Communication, 1970), Introducción
a la psiquiatría (Introduction to Psychiatry, 1979-1980), Estudios de
psicopatología sexual (Studies in Sexual Psychopathology, 1984), Teoría
de la alucinación (Theory of Hallucination, 1984), and Cuarenta años de
psiquiatría (Forty Years of Psychiatry, 1987). He has also published works
of fiction such as Una alacena tapiada (A Walled-in Cupboard, 1991), and
Discurso de Onofre (Onofre´s Discourse) published by
Tusquets Editores in 1999.