Where Nothing Happens Twice
What is a psychologist, what does he do?
Professor Liam Hudson of Brunei University, is best known for his work on 'convergers' and ' divergers '. He asked clever schoolboys such questions as ' How many uses can you think of for a brick?' If the boy put down lots of answers and didn't mind if some were crazy, violent or even obscene he could be labelled a diverger. But if he ruled out the less appropriate possibilities and simply wrote ' build a wall' he was probably a converger. Hudson found that convergers tended to become scientists, and divergers followed careers in the arts and humanities.
Each individual human mind is different, so the collection of reliable, scientific evidence about what makes people tick is not easy. Hudson searches for clues in sleep and dreams, in a piece of Chelsea porcelain, in patterns of marriage and divorce, and in the pages of Who's Who.
Film cameraman colin MUNN
Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES Produced by ALEC NISBETT