Nationality English Known for Subpersonality Role Author | Alma mater Middlesex University Name John Rowan Education Middlesex University | |
Books The transpersonal, Ethics for the professions, Subpersonalities, The therapist's use of self, Discover your subpersonalities Similar People Bob Cobbing, Aaron Rosanoff, Silvio Ceccato | ||
John Rowan is an English author, counselor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who has worked in exploring Transpersonal psychology, and has written about the concept of subpersonality.
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Life and career
Rowan has been involved since 1950 in the work of the Walsby Association on systematic ideology. He lived and worked with Harold Walsby in 1950, and in 1951 and joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain in order to learn the rudiments of Marxism. He became the editor of the SPGB's internal journal, Forum but left the Party over the Turner Controversy.
Rowan is a qualified individual and group psychotherapist (UKAHPP and UKCP), a Chartered counseling psychologist (BPS) and an accredited counselor (BACP). He works in private practice in London.
Rowan holds a Ph. D from Middlesex University, is an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and a past member of its governing board, representing the Humanistic and Integrative Section.
John Rowan is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (member of the Psychotherapy Section and the Counseling Psychology Division, the Counseling Psychology Division, the Transpersonal Psychology Section and the Consciousness and Experience Section). He is also a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and a founding member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. He practices Primal integration in England.
His publication Ordinary Ecstasy was originally published in 1976 and is a summary and guide to all the branches of Humanistic psychology. He also helped to produce the radical men's magazine Achilles Heel.
Rowan and his wife live in North Chingford, London. He has four children and four grandchildren from a previous marriage.
Publications
He is the author of a number of books, including the following.
He is on the Editorial Board of the following periodicals.