John Rowan (psychologist) explained

Post-Nominals:FBACP, FBPS
John Rowan
Occupation:Psychologist, psychotherapist, author
Birth Date:31 March 1925
Birth Place:Ford, Wiltshire, England
Death Place:London, England
Alma Mater:Middlesex University
Known For:Subpersonality

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.[1] He worked in exploring transpersonal psychology, and wrote about the concept of subpersonality.[2] [3] [4]

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.[5]

He described his therapeutic approach as humanistic, existential, authentic, relational and transpersonal.[6] He was an exponent of the idea of the dialogical self, a later development of subpersonalities theory.

Early life

Rowan was born in Wiltshire on 31 March 1925.[7] He started his life at the Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury where his father was a squadron leader in the British Royal Air Force.[8] 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.

Career

When he reached the age of eighteen in 1943, Rowan was called up to serve in the British Army. Part of his service during the Second World War was in India, where he gained formative experiences.[9]

Rowan spent several years working in various occupations including encyclopedia sales, teaching, telecommunications, accountancy, research, and other office-based jobs.

In 1950, he became involved in the work of the Walsby Association on systematic ideology. He lived and worked with Harold Walsby in 1950, and in 1951 joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) in order to learn the rudiments of Marxism. He became the editor of the SPGB's internal journal, Forum[10] but left the Party over the Turner Controversy.[11]

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 1969, he began his group work by co-leading workshops in a pioneering group called B Now which ran from his home in Finchley, north London.[12] In the same year Rowan joined the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP), which he would eventually chair.[13] During 1971, he co-led groups at Centre 42[14] in Kensington, and then later in 1972 at the Kaleidoscope Centre in Swiss Cottage.

In 1975, he studied co-counselling, and practiced this method for five years. He later became a teacher of the Barefoot Psychoanalyst[15] model.

In 1976, he published Ordinary Ecstasy.[16] 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.[17]

In 1978, he helped to found, with Giora Doron, the Hampstead-based Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies.[18]

During 1978, Rowan became interested in Primal Integration, training with this movement's founder Bill Swartley.[19] 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.[20]

In 1989, Rowan co-founded the Serpent Institute with Jocelyn Chaplin.[21] Both taught humanistic and psychodynamic theories and practices.

On the closure of this institute four years later, he joined the Minster Centre,[22] 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.

Education

During childhood, Rowan went to a number of different schools as a consequence of his father's career in the British Royal Air Force. One such was King's School, Chester, where he was in the class of 1939.[23]

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.

From 1970–79, Rowan studied with a variety of practitioners including John Adams, James Elliott, Bernard Gunther, Paul Lowe, Elizabeth Mintz, Al and Diane Pesso, John Pierrakos, Will Schutz, Julian Silverman, Jay Stattman, and Denny Yuson.

In 2006, he was awarded a Ph.D in transpersonal psychology from Middlesex University.[24]

Honours

John Rowan was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (member of the Psychotherapy Section, the Counselling Psychology Division, the Transpersonal Psychology Section, and the Consciousness and Experience Section). He was also a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). As a founding member of the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners, he was named an Honorary Life Member.[25] He was an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and was a past member of its governing board, representing the Humanistic and Integrative Section.

Personal life

Rowan and his wife Sue lived in North Chingford, London. He had four children and four grandchildren from a previous marriage that ended in divorce in 1978.

Publications

Author

Editor

He was on the Editorial Board of the following periodicals.

Papers

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Dr John Rowan in conversation with Shirley Ward . Ward . Shirley . Inside Out . 2013 . 70 . 27 May 2018.
  2. Book: Hermans, HJM. The dialogical self: Meaning as movement. 1993. Academic Press. 978-0123423207.
  3. Book: Wilber, K. The eye of spirit. 1998. Shambhala Publications. 978-0834822221.
  4. Web site: Who we are: subpersonalities. Mind Models. 24 May 2018.
  5. Web site: UKCP Find a Therapist: John Rowan . https://web.archive.org/web/20180527085108/https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/therapist/john-rowan/ . Internet archive . 27 May 2018 . 27 May 2018.
  6. Web site: Live Counselling 3 – John Rowan Counsels Mike Trier . Rowan . John . Trier . Mike . Wilson . John . 2016 . onlinevents . 26 May 2018.
  7. Web site: John Rowan: Obituary and Appreciation . House . Richard . Silvester . Keith . 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180609074350/http://ahpb.org/index.php/john-rowan-obituary-and-appreciation/ . Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain . 9 June 2018 . 9 June 2018 .
  8. Book: Dryden . Windy . Spurling . Laurence . On Becoming a Psychotherapist . 2014 . Routledge . 978-1317752028.
  9. Web site: John Rowan. The Centaur, Subtle, Causal and Non-Dual . Rowan . John . McNay . Iain . 2013 . conscious . 27 May 2018.
  10. Web site: The Socialist Party of Great Britain Forum Journal (1952–1960) low-res full archive . Internet archive . 26 May 2018.
  11. Web site: The George Walford International Essay Prize . https://web.archive.org/web/20060706070613/http://gwiep.net/site/bio.htm . Internet archive . 6 July 2006 . 26 May 2018.
  12. John Rowan: A Personal Tribute . Chaplin . Jocelyn . Self & Society . 23–24 . 42 . 3–4 . 2014 . 10.1080/03060497.2014.11102937 .
  13. News: John Rowan obituary . The Guardian . 16 June 2018. 2018-06-14 . Silvester . Keith .
  14. Web site: History of the Roundhouse: 1960–1970: An Arts Centre Emerges . Roundhouse Trust . 26 May 2018.
  15. Book: Southgate . John . Randall . Rosemary . The Barefoot Psychoanalyst . 1989 . 3rd . Gale Centre Publications . Loughton . 978-1-870258-06-7.
  16. Web site: John Rowan's web site: Ordinary Ecstasy (3rd Ed.) . Internet archive . https://web.archive.org/web/20171004134042/http://www.johnrowan.org.uk/ordinary-ecstasy/ . 4 October 2017 . 26 May 2018.
  17. Book: Seidler, Victor . 1991 . 978-1136921902 . The Achilles Heel Reader: Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism . Routledge . 26 May 2018.
  18. Web site: Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies . https://web.archive.org/web/20171004141511/http://www.johnrowan.org.uk/historyastherapist/ . dead . 4 October 2017 . 26 May 2018 .
  19. Web site: John Rowan website . Internet archive . https://web.archive.org/web/20171004134042/http://www.johnrowan.org.uk/ . 4 October 2017 . 26 May 2018 . live .
  20. Web site: UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners . 26 May 2018.
  21. Web site: The Serpent Institute . 26 May 2018.
  22. Web site: The Minster Centre . 26 May 2018.
  23. Web site: John Rowan's Facebook page . Facebook . 27 May 2018.
  24. PhD . Rowan . John . 2006 . Dialogue and the transpersonal in therapy . Middlesex University . Middlesex University Research Repository . 26 May 2018.
  25. Web site: John Rowan . https://web.archive.org/web/20180529215547/https://ahpp.org.uk/profiles/john-rowan/ . UKAHPP . 29 May 2018 . 28 May 2018.
  26. Book: Rowan, John . 1973 . Psychological Aspects of Society . 1 . 978-0706700268 . The science of you . Davis-Poynter . London .
  27. Book: Rowan, John . 1978 . Psychological Aspects of Society . 2 . 978-0706701258 . The social individual . Davis-Poynter . London . registration .
  28. Book: Rowan, John . 1976 . 3 . Psychological Aspects of Society . 978-0706701494 . The power of the group . Davis-Poynter . London . 26 May 2018.
  29. Book: Rowan, John . 1976 . 978-0710083449 . Ordinary ecstasy: humanistic psychology in action . Routledge and Kegan Paul . London . 26 May 2018.
  30. Book: Rowan, John . 1983 . 978-0710098146 . The reality game: a guide to humanistic counselling and therapy . Routledge and Kegan Paul . London . 26 May 2018.
  31. Book: Rowan, John . 1978 . Psychological Aspects of Society . 4 . 9780706701647 . The structured crowd . Davis-Poynter . London . 26 May 2018.
  32. Book: Rowan, John . 1987 . 978-1870351003 . A guide to humanistic psychology . Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain . London .
  33. Book: Rowan, John . 1987 . 978-0710206749 . The horned god: feminism and men as wounding and healing . Routledge & Kegan Paul . London . 26 May 2018.
  34. Book: Rowan, John . 1990 . 978-0415043298 . Subpersonalities: the people inside us . Routledge . London .
  35. Book: Rowan, John . 1992 . 978-1870332187 . Breakthroughs and integration in psychotherapy . Whurr . 26 May 2018.
  36. Book: Rowan, John . 1993 . 978-0415073660 . Discover your subpersonalities: our inner world and the people in it . Routledge . London .
  37. Book: Rowan, John . 1993 . 978-0415053617 . The transpersonal: psychotherapy and counselling . Routledge . London .
  38. Book: Rowan, John . 1997 . 978-0415100489 . Healing the male psyche: therapy as initiation . Routledge . London .
  39. Book: Rowan . John . Jacobs . Michael . 2002 . 978-0335207763 . The therapist's use of self . Open University Press . Buckingham .
  40. Book: Rowan, John . 2005 . 978-1583912362 . The future of training in psychotherapy and counselling: instrumental, relational and transpersonal perspectives . Routledge . London .
  41. Book: Rowan, John . 2009 . 978-0415433464 . Personification: Using the dialogical self in psychotherapy and counselling . Routledge . London .
  42. Book: Reason . Peter . Rowan . John . 1981 . 978-0471279365 . Human inquiry: A sourcebook of new paradigm research . Wiley . Chichester . 26 May 2018.
  43. Book: Dryden . Windy . Rowan . John . 1988 . 978-0335098378 . Innovative therapy in Britain . Open University Press . Buckingham . 26 May 2018.
  44. Book: Rowan . John . Mick . Cooper . 1998 . 978-1446238332 . The plural self: multiplicity in everyday life . SAGE . 26 May 2018.

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