Authors

Mark Rapley (1962 - 2012) inspired many. He was Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. A graduate of the then NELP MSc in Clinical Psychology, he worked as a clinical psychologist in NHS learning disability services, and as an…

Nat Raskin began graduate work with Carl Rogers at Ohio State University in 1940, continuing at the University of Chicago after World War II, receiving his PhD in 1949. He returned to New York, taught at Hunter College, New York University and Columbia University's Teachers' College, and became Director of Research…

Marlis Pörtner, worked in theatre and as an editor and translator, before becoming a psychotherapist. After the 'family years' she studied psychology and has worked for 20 years as a psychotherapist in her own practice. She has always had in her client caseload some people with special needs.…

Denis Postle is an artist, writer and musician who has had a counselling, coaching, supervision and psychotherapy practice in West London for over 17 years. He has co-run a variety of personal and professional development workshops and trainings focused around cooperative enquiry and facilitation. His approach to psychopractice seeks to help…

Dr. Gillian Proctor is an independent Clinical psychologist and person-centred psychotherapist, offering individual therapy and supervision. She is a lecturer in counselling at the University of Leeds and a research supervisor.  She has a particular interest in ethics, politics and power and the importance for counselling from the insights…

Garry Prouty, (died 2009) trained by Eugene Gendlin, was the founder of Pre-Therapy. He lectured in Europe and North America in clinics, hospitals and training organisations for the over 17 years. During his career, he was invited to deliver the Frieda Fromm-Reichman Memorial Lecture at the Washington School of…

Campbell Purton has written extensively on focusing and focusing-oriented therapy. He studied philosophy and the history and philosophy of science in London and Alberta, and holds a PhD in philosophy. He was a lecturer in philosophy before training as a person-centred counsellor and becoming interested in Gendlin's focusing-oriented therapy.…

Stephen Paul recently retired as Director of the Centre for Psychological Therapies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is a psychotherapist with over 30 years of practitioner experience and was previously Head of a  therapeutic school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. He has studied extensively in the areas of…

Professor Cecil Holden Patterson, who died aged 93 on May 26, 2006, was one of the great evangelists of the client-centred/person-centred approach to psychotherapy and human relations originated by Carl Rogers. His obituary, which will be published in the forthcoming issue of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, will be available as a link…

Richard C. Page, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA and a Visiting Professor at ISMAI University, Porto, Portugal. He received two Fulbright Scholarships which were spent at the Department of Applied Psychology, University College, Cork, Ireland and is a former Chair of the National…