Brian Bates (psychologist)

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Brian Bates (born 1944) is former chairman of Psychology^{[clarification needed]} at the University of Sussex.^[1] He is currently the director of the Medical Psychology Project at the Department of Psychology at University of Sussex in England.^[2] He is a visiting professor at the University of Brighton.^[1] He is known as the author of books on the shamanic wisdom of Anglo-Saxon England, and for his related course on "Shamanic Consciousness". He has also taught and directed at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.^[3]