Authors

Dr. John Read worked in the UK and USA for 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services. He joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, where he became Director of the Clinical Psychology doctoral training programme. He held the same position at the University of…

Peter Beresford OBE is a long-term user of mental health servicse and Co-Chair of Shaping our Lives, the national independent service user-controlled organisation and network. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has a longstanding involvement in issues of participation and empowerment as writer, researcher,…

Alastair Morgan is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He has worked in the mental health field for a number of years, and is also a trained philosopher with a particular interest in Critical Theory and the philosophy of T.W. Adorno. His publications include Adorno's…

Judy Moore trained as a person-centred counsellor in the mid 1980s and taught on the postgraduate diploma in person-centred counselling at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, for many years.  She became Director of the University Counselling Service in 1998 and also became Director of the Centre for Counselling Studies,…

Beryl Malcolm works in a Child/Adolescent Mental Health Team, as well as  supervising trainee play therapists. Her background and training are in teaching, counselling and Play Therapy. She is particularly interested in ethnicity issues in cousnelling/psychotherapy, and her MA research focused on race and culture in child…

John K.Wood PhD (1934 - 2004) completed successful careers in engineering and psychology. Together with friend and colleague Carl R. Rogers, he made significant theoretical contributions to the school of Humanistic Psychology. In the last 20 years of his life he dedicated himself to an interdisciplinary studies project at the Estâ…

Dagmar Nuding (former Hölldampf) works a lecturer and researcher at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. Her main research topic is the effectiveness of person-centered and experiential therapy and counselling with children and adolescents. As lecturer she is involved in the training of…