The first striking point to notice about Shands is the breadth of his knowledge. This is apparent in the references to his essay, Creativity and Success: Bartlett's Remembering; a paper from Science; an interview with Duchamps, the painter; a quotation from T. S. Eliot; Festinger's Theory of Cognitive Dissonance; Francis Galton's early paper on free association; Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution; Piaget's Origin of Intelligence in Childhood; and a paper of his own on the complementarity principle in psychiatry. Psychoanalysis, art, history of science—all are discussed and the paper begins with a quotation from Emily Dickinson. In other papers, he shows an acquaintance with Whitehead, with Mary Brazier and George Miller. His heroes—to judge from the most frequently cited authors—include such names as Bartlett, Cannon, Descartes, Dewey, Einstein, Freud, James, McLuhan, Pavlov,