Monty Lyman is a doctor and author living in Oxford, England.

Monty Lyman is a medical doctor, author and research fellow at the University of Oxford. His clinical, research and writing interests focus on the relationship between mind and body.

Doctor

• Medical doctor, specialising in psychiatry

• Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

• MBChB BSc MSc

• Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘Innovator of the Year’ 2024

• Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Oxford

Author

• Author of three books with Penguin:

• The Remarkable Life of the Skin (2019) was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, was a Radio 4 'Book of the Week' and a Sunday Times 'Book of the Year'

• The Painful Truth (2021) was a Top 10 Amazon bestseller. An essay based on the book won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine pain essay prize

• The Immune Mind (2024) was a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’. It won the 2024 British Psychological Society Book Award.

• Translated into 16 languages

• Keynote speaker at international conferences/festivals (Italy, Netherlands, Denmark), Oxford Health AGM, the Eden Project, CarFest, Oxford Playhouse

• Featured in The Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian

• Media appearances: BBC Breakfast, BBC Morning Live, Stompcast, The Chris Evans Show

  'A talented new writer' Sunday Times
  
  ' …there is something for a wide range of readers in Lyman’s skilful work' Publishers Weekly
  
  'Lyman excels in relating even the most esoteric subjects to a shared human experience… Illuminating and thought-provoking' Kirkus Reviews