Dr Robert Tym

Dr Robert Tym graduated at Sheffield University in 1948, obtained his Primary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) and then joined the Army for two years as a Junior Surgical Officer in Hong Kong. He returned to England and completed his training for a full FRCS England, obtained in 1957.He then commenced his training as a Neurosurgeon. Robert had a preliminary period at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, associated with the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, and then on to Manchester and later Glasgow University Hospitals in Neurosurgery. During this period, he had a Rockefeller Research Fellowship in neuroscience at Harvard University, Mass, and later at California University, Berkley, as Neurosurgeon to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, working on High Energy Neuroradiology. He returned Glasgow and then began as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Toronto University, Canada, for four years.

Dr Tym then changed to (the vastly more interesting) Psychiatry and spent four years re-training at the Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London. He worked in England and then in Sydney, Australia. He obtained his Fellowship pf the Australian and New Zealand College as well as his MRC Psych (London). He worked in various hospitals and in Private Practice in in cities in New South Wales. He spent the last 40 years endeavouring to elucidate a hitherto miss-understood and ignored abnormal visual phenomenon that was reported to persist by some people but not others following the mental trauma of Traumatic Neurosis, now called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). His work on this crypto-natural philosophical problem, is described in his new book, “Soldiers with Stammering Vision.”