Dr Le Bas is a consultant psychiatrist who has worked in both community psychiatry and in private practice. As a junior doctor he discovered the joy of talking to people and he has been a devotee of therapy ever since. He has undertaken study at the Bouverie Family Centre, Narrative workshops with Michael White and the Melbourne Association of Psychodynamic Psychiatrists. He completed a PhD in 2015 on the role of prestige in the mood disorders. He is the author of a number of academic articles and has recently written the book ‘beyond BIPOLAR, Ancient Realms, New Directions’. This writing centres on his role as an expert participant observer of his own condition – bipolar disorder; he writes a poetic narrative of living with the disorder while trying to understand why and how it occurs. He has turned to Jeffery Gray’s three behavioural axes and Jaak Panksepp’s primary affect programs for inspiration. This has led him to the social context of the disorders while being inexplicably drawn to biological processes, culminating in a four-dimensional diagnostic rubric – the Tesseract, the xPolar spectrum and “cone” models of psychosis.