A biography of my father, Graham Glancy, upon his induction to the presidency of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

I sat with my aunt and uncle, Linda and Robert Glancy, at the kitchen table of their home in North London’s Hampstead Garden Suburb. As usual for Sunday lunch, smoked salmon, egg salad, liver pâté and bagels featured prominently, and though I can’t quite recall, it was likely raining. “Well, Graham started swimming when?”, my uncle asked himself, after I questioned him about my dad’s athletic career. Further he continued: