Roland Littlewood is a clinical psychiatrist and Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at University College London. He is the joint director of the college's Centre for Medical Anthropology and a past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His books include Aliens and Alienists; Intercultural Therapy; The Butterfly and the Serpent; Readings in Cultural Psychiatry; Religion, Agency, Restitution; and Pathology and Identity, which was awarded the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medicine.