Thomas G. West

Thomas G. West, author of In the Mind’s Eye, Thinking Like Einstein and Seeing What Others Cannot See.

Thomas G. West is the author of In the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics and the Rise of Visual Technologies (Prometheus Books). It was selected as one of the “best of the best” for the year by the American Library Association (one of only 13 books in their broad psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience category). Second and third editions have been published. A Foreword by Oliver Sacks, MD, states: “In the Mind's Eye brings out the special problems of people with dyslexia, but also their strengths, which are so often overlooked. Its accent is not so much on pathology as on how much human minds vary. It stands alongside Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind as a testament to the range of human talent and possibility.”

In the Mind’s Eye was published in Japanese translation in as Geniuses Who Hated School. Chinese and Korean translations have also been published. In connection with In the Mind's Eye and his other writings, Mr. West has been invited to provide presentations for scientific, medical, art, design, computer and business groups in the U.S. and overseas, including groups in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and twelve European countries.

For years West wrote a column, “Images and Reversals,” on the broad effects of visualization technologies for Computer Graphics, a quarterly publication of the international professional association for computer graphics artists and technologists (an organization with many creative, visual-thinking dyslexics). These columns were collected into a book with the title: Thinking Like Einstein: Returning to Our Visual Roots with the Emerging Revolution in Computer Information Visualization.

West has published a third book, Seeing What Others Cannot See. This one deals with high level creativity, visual thinking and the role of brain diversity -- including Asperger syndrome, dyslexia and other modes of thinking and learning in several leading-edge businesses as well as several individual scientists and technological innovators (including one family with many visual thinkers, many dyslexics and four Nobel Prize winners).