"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"

T.S.Eliot

Dr. David Allen trained in medicine at St. Andrew's University, Scotland, UK and in Psychiatry and Public Health at Harvard University, in Boston, U.S.A.

He has taught at Harvard, Yale and presently holds a clinical professorship in Psychiatry at Gerrgetown Medical School, in Washington, U.S.A.

Dr. Allen was voted one of the most outstanding psychiatrists in America, 2002-2003 and has just been made Most Distinguished Fellow of the America Psychiatry Association.

In 1987, he was given the Barrett Prize, by the Royal Society of Art in London, for his international contribution to his field of cocaine.

Dr. Allen has pioneered the development of treatment approaches to cocaine addiction involving programs in The Bahamas, Peru, the Czech Republic, and Washington, D.C.

He has now returned to his home, The Bahamas, to practise psychiatry and is presently the chairperson of the Urban Renewal Commission of The Bahamas.

In the past two years, Dr. Allen has been consultant to numerous organizations including the Young Presidents Organization of Washington, D.C., The Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island, the Chautauqua Institution in New York, and this summer will be a major presenter at the Episcopal Conference in Canada. The major themes of these presentations have dealt with the understanding, presentation and resolution of anger, its management and conflict resolution.

Dr. Allen is the author of numerous books, namely, Mental Health Evaluation, Ethical Issues In Mental Retardation, The Caring Physician, The Cocaine Crisis, Cocaine: The Broken Promise, In Search of the Heart, Shadowing the Gods Within, and his most recent book, Contemplation: Intimacy in a Distant World.

Dr. Allen has a regular radio program on Love 97.5 Sunday evenings at 7.30pm entitled "Coming Home, Facing Our Heart".

Dr. Brian Humblestone completed his pre-clinical training at King's College, London and continued at St. George's Hospital Medical School, Hyde Park Corner from where he graduated with an M.B.B.S.

He did his internship as House Surgeon to Sir Rodney Smith (who subsequently became President of the Royal College of Surgeons) at Tite Street in Chelsea and later at the Miller General Hospital in Greenwich. He was a Senior House Surgeon at Kingston General Hospital in 1963.

Dr. Humblestone entered the field of psychiatry at Mabledon Hospital and remained there from 1963-1965, after which he came to The Bahamas and worked at Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre.

He then returned to the UK he completed his graduate studies at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and attained his D.P.M., M.R.C.S and L.R.C.P.

Having returned to The Bahamas and to S.R.C., he left once more in 1972 and trained in EEG at Cambridge and became the first doctor in the UK to work in Biofeedback.

Back again in The Bahamas, Dr. Humblestone set up the EEG service as well as the Alcoholic Unit at S.R.C., the first in the Caribbean basin.

Dr. Humblestone helped to set up the first inpatient treatment centre for crack cocaine in 1985 - the only one in the world and was Chairman of the world's first symposium on crack cocaine addiction, held under the auspices of the Bahamian Government and the U.S. Embassy.

Dr. Humblestone was a Consultant at S.R.C from 1973-1984 and became Chief Psychiatrist in 1989. Thereafter, he went into Private Practice and Research.

His interest in nutrition has led him to broadcast occasionally and work in collaboration with the Health Connection on Miami's WAXY 790am radio station. Dr. Humblestone designed a multi-nutritional product called Synthergen.

Dr. Humblestone has worked closely with Dr. David Allen on crack cocaine addiction and alcoholism. He takes an avid interest in research and, as part of his training in EEG, he worked in India in 1990 studying the brains of Brahmin priests during chanting.

Dr. Humblestone enjoys fishing, playing afro-percussion, listening to a wide range of music, reading books on angling and cooking and netsuke, the collection of miniature Japanese carvings.