John Rowan

John Rowan (31 March 1925 – 26 May 2018) was an English author, counsellor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, known for being one of the pioneers of humanistic psychology and integrative psychotherapy. He worked in exploring transpersonal psychology, and wrote about the concept of subpersonality.

Rowan was a qualified individual and group psychotherapist (UKAHPP and UKCP), a Chartered counseling psychologist (BPS) and was an accredited counsellor (BACP). He worked in private practice in London.

He described his therapeutic approach as humanistic, existential, authentic, relational and transpersonal. He was an exponent of the idea of the dialogical self, a later development of subpersonalities theory. He started his life at the Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury Consequently, his childhood was spent in a number of different air force stations. Whilst the family was in Cairo, his brother was born in a taxi.

Rowan spent several years working in various occupations including encyclopedia sales, teaching, telecommunications, accountancy, research, and other office-based jobs. but left the Party over the Turner Controversy.

After gaining a degree, Rowan built a career in market research. He held the position of Managing Director at the Bureau of Commercial Research. In the same year Rowan joined the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP), which he would eventually chair. During 1971, he co-led groups at Centre 42 in Kensington, and then later in 1972 at the Kaleidoscope Centre in Swiss Cottage. model. This work is a summary and guide to all the branches of Humanistic psychology. He also helped to produce the radical men's magazine Achilles Heel.

In 1978, he helped to found, with Giora Doron, the Hampstead-based Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies.

During 1978, Rowan became interested in Primal Integration, training with this movement's founder Bill Swartley. Rowan then offered this therapy as part of his practice.

In 1980, Rowan helped to found the Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners, later to be known as the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners.

In 1989, Rowan co-founded the Serpent Institute with Jocelyn Chaplin. where he worked for ten years. Whilst there he trained psychotherapists, lead seminars, experiential training groups and supervision groups. He left the Centre in 2004, and worked in private practice, as well as provided master classes and workshops.

In the 1950s, Rowan gained a London University diploma in sociology, and was awarded a joint honours degree in philosophy and psychology from Birkbeck College.

Honours John Rowan was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society He was an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy The Social Individual (Psychological Aspects of Society Book 2) (Davis-Poynter 1973) The Power of the Group (Psychological Aspects of Society Book 3) (Davis-Poynter 1976) Ordinary Ecstasy: Humanistic Psychology in Action (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1976) The Reality Game:A Guide to Humanistic Counseling and Psychotherapy (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1976) The Structured Crowd (Psychological Aspects of Society Book 4) (Davis-Poynter 1978) A Guide To Humanistic Psychology (Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain 1987) The Horned God (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1987) Subpersonalities: The people Inside Us (Routledge 1990) Breakthroughs and Integration in Psychotherapy (Whurr 1992) Discover Your Subpersonalities: Our Inner World and the People In It (Routledge 1993) The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge 1993) Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation (Routledge 1997) The Therapist's Use of Self with Michael Jacobs (Open University Press 2002) The Future of Training in Psychotherapy and Counselling: Instrumental, Relational and Transpersonal Perspectives (Routledge 2005) Personification: Using the Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge 2010)

Editor Human Inquiry: A Sourcebook of New Paradigm Research with Peter Reason (Wiley 1976) Innovative Therapy in Britain with Windy Dryden (Wiley 1988) The Plural Self: Multiplicity in Everyday Life with Mick Cooper (SAGE 1998)

He was on the Editorial Board of the following periodicals. Self & Society: An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology; link to journal The Transpersonal Psychology Review; link to journal Counseling Psychology Review; link to journal Journal of Humanistic Psychology; link to journal

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