Lecturers
Dr Miles Clapham
Dr Miles Clapham is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who returned to the NHS in a community CAMHS team in Bedford in 2009, where he is developing a team working to keep young people out of psychiatric units. He also has a small psychotherapy practice. He has trained both as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in London, and as a phenomenological psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association. He previously worked in Greenwich in the community, in his native New Zealand, and in independent sector secure psychiatric services for adolescents for the last 10 years. Dr Clapham is interested in a philosophical critique of psychotherapy and psychiatry, and had a chapter on this subject published in “Being Human; Reflections on mental distress in society”, as well as a chapter in the recently published book “Rethinking Audit Cultures”. He teaches on the Philadelphia Association psychotherapy training course, the introductory course, and on other courses on an occasional basis. |
Noel Cobb (back to top)
Noel Cobb came to London in 1968, after completing degrees in philosophy and clinical psychology, in the US and Norway. From 1966 to 1968, he lived in Kingsley Hall, the first experimental household created by the Philadelphia Association, in order to learn first-hand about R.D. Laing’s revolutionary work with so-called ‘schizophrenia’.
During the ‘70’s, he drove through the Sahara desert, exploring the Tassili plateau of south-eastern Algeria and lived five months in the Swat Valley of North West Pakistan. He also lived in Kathmandu valley, Nepal for one year and studied in Northern India with various meditation masters of the Drukpa Ka-gyu school of Tibetan Buddism. In the late ‘70’s he returned to England where he underwent a personal, as well as a Jungian training-analysis. Cobb has worked as a psychotherapist and teacher of archetypal psychology since 1980. In 1988, he convened the Registered Charity, THE LONDON CONVIVIUM FOR ARCHETYPAL STUDIES and became the co-Editor (with Eva Loewe) of SPHINX-- JOURNAL FOR ARCHETYPAL STUDIES. In the 1990’s he began teaching a London-based, post-graduate course in Archetypal and Cultural Psychology called “THIASOS”, exploring contemporary cultural and psychological life through an archetypal phenomenology based on the ideas of C.G. Jung and James Hillman, seeing Life and the Imagination through a blend of Archetypal Phenomenology and depth psychology-- employing insights into poetry, music and myth, as well as politics, history and religion.
He is the author of “Prospero’s Island--the Secret Alchemy at the Heart of the Tempest” (1984) a study of Shakespeare’s play; and Archetypal Imagination--Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art (1992); as well as a book of poems entitled: “Falling Out of the Skin into the Soul” (Godstow Press--2006).
Hilary Cooper (back to top)
initially trained as a social worker. She lived in a PA household in the seventies, learning from Dr Hugh Crawford, a colleague of R D Laing and a central figure in the work and thinking about the community households. Her interest and commitment to this work has continued and she has been a therapist to one of the PA houses for over twenty years. Hilary trained as a psychotherapist with the PA, and also studied at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, taking a two year course in couples analytic psychotherapy. She works in private practice with individuals and couples. She also works for the NHS in Primary Care as a therapist in a GP practice. Hilary is a member of the council of management of the PA, chair of the ethics committee.
Marie-Laure Davenport (back to top)
is a member of the Institute of Group Analysis, a Member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, and an Associate Member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS. She is French and has trained in both individual and group analysis. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and also belongs to the College of Psychoanalysts. She has been leading a group of outpatients in the NHS for 20 years and is a supervisor at the Women’s Therapy Centre. She has worked in a Philadelphia Association therapeutic community for over 16 years.
Joe Friedman (back to top)
an American, graduated from the University of Michigan the United States in 1972. After a year in Paris doing Zen meditation, he moved to London and trained with the PA. Since then has seen individuals and couples in his private practice. He has worked in a successful PA community for over 20 years. He is currently preparing two books, one about closing a therapeutic community and another on dreams.
Kate Gilbert (back to top)
Kate Gilbert did her training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the P.A. following a first training in group and individual psychotherapy at the Gestalt Centre in London.
She works in fulltime private practice in Hampstead and Swiss Cottage.
She is a Member of the Training Committee at the P.A. and has taught on a number of psycotherapy trainings including the P.A. , Arbours, AGIP and Surrey University.
Douglas Gill (back to top)
Studied Art in Education at Dartington College of Arts, and was a practising artist and art therapist before training with the PA. Whilst training he became fascinated by the phenomenological approach to psychotherapy and how this resonated with art practice. In 1988 he co-founded Studio Upstairs, an independent charity for the arts and psychotherapy. He facilitated the Experiential Group on the Introductory course for 3 years and teaches on the Training course. Since 1999 he has been based in Bristol developing a second Studio Upstairs project and a private psychotherapy and supervision practice.
Miranda Glossop (back to top)
studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Oxford. She has a diverse background in the arts having both taught the piano and run a ceramic restoration business. She worked as a bereavement counsellor before training as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association. Her paper The Way of Water is published in the PA book Between Psychotherapy and Philosophy.
Paul Gordon (back to top)
worked for many years as a campaigner and researcher in civil liberties and race relations. He trained as a psychotherapist first at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies, subsequently at the Philadelphia Association. His book, Face to Face: therapy as ethics was published by Constable in 1999 and he was the co-editor of the PA book of essays, Between Psychotherapy and Philosophy. His most recent books are The Hope of Therapy, (2009) and An Uneasy Dwelling, (2010) about the PA houses, both published by PCCS Books. He works as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and as a house therapist in one of the PA houses.
Paul Gurney (back to top)
went to a comprehensive school in Essex, going on to study Philosophy & Politics (Southampton, 1982) and Psychodynamic Counselling (Goldsmith’s, 1991). He subsequently trained at the PA, qualifying in 1998. He has been working as a counsellor and psychotherapist since 1987. Prior to that, he worked as a writer and musician. He currently practices in both the NHS and private practice in South London.
Dr John Heaton (back to top)
studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and University College Hospital, qualifying in 1951. He worked in Ophthalmology and then trained in psychotherapy. in 1960 he and Laing met and became friends. In 1967 he was invited by R D Laing to start the PA training programme, which he chaired for many years. He is a Vice-President of the British Society of Phenomenology. He has published articles in Ophthalmology, Philosophy, and Psychotherapy. Author of The Eye: Phenomenology and Psychology of Function and Disorder, Tavistock Publications 1968; Introducing Wittgenstein, Icon Books 1994; Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis, Icon Books 2000.
Lucy King (back to top)
is a member of the Training Committee. She originally trained as a biologist but came to feel that being with people in therapeutic contexts engaged much more of her than studying cells down a microscope. She lives and works in Cambridge where she is a founding member of the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy. She works part-time in the Cambridge University counselling service, is course tutor on an Advanced Diploma in Counselling based within the Counselling Service, as well as having a private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor. She is contributing editor of Committed Uncertainty a volume of essays in honour of Peter Lomas, and co-editor with Rosemary Randal of The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, both volumes published by Whurr.
Barbara Latham (back to top)
is a New Zealander who came to the PA in the early 1970s. She came to the PA because it seemed the only place that might help her to think more profoundly about human suffering and madness. She trained as a psychotherapist and lived in a PA community household. She was involved with a Woman’s Therapy Group and the WTC in its early days. Her practice is influenced by her interest in literature (she writes short stories) and by an understanding of astrology.
James Low (back to top)
works half the week in private practice, half at Guy’s Hospital as a consultant psychotherapist in three clinics: a therapeutic community, a sexual and relationships problem clinic, and a general outpatient psychotherapy unit. He also teaches Buddhist meditation and philosophy. He is the current Chair of the Training Commitee of the PA.
Rosalind Mayo (back to top)
Rosalind Mayo trained at the PA. She has an academic background in Theology and Philosophy from King’s College London and Heythrop College, London University. She did a Counselling Training in the 70’s. Training as a psychotherapist came after working in education and business, and working for a time with the long term unemployed and disadvantaged young persons. For a time she was a consultant in Personal Development and Guidance with Cambridge County Council, running group and individual work especially with women who had been away from the workplace for a long period. She has a private psychotherapy practice in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, where she lives. Ros teaches on the Introductory Course and the Training Course. She has contributed to the PA book, Between Psychotherapy and Philosophy of which she was co-editor. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts.
Christina Moutsou (back to top)
has completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, with an emphasis on the experience of living in the Diaspora. She then went on to train with the PA, and during her training has worked as a therapist at the Women's Therapy Centre and in Huntercombe Maidenhead Adolescent Psychiatric hospital. She qualified in 2002 and worked as one of the house therapists at the Freegrove Road Community until recently. She works in private practice. She is one of the editors of a volume entitled Crossing European Boundaries to be published by Berghahn in November 2005.
Jim O'Neill (back to top)
a Canadian, lives and works in South London. He has been practicing for nearly 20 years and for the past five has been in partnership with James Mann in a practice just off Clapham High Street. Jim has been a Buddhist practitioner also for the past twenty years and teaches Shambhala Training, a non-religious meditative path developed by the great Tibetan Master, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, throughout Europe. He also regularly teaches month long retreats within the Shambhala Buddhist tradition in France. Important psychoanalytic influences are W F Bion, D W Winnicott, Michael Eigen, Marion Milner and Joyce McDougall to mention just a few.
Leon Redler (back to top)
read history and undertook a post-graduate training in paediatrics and psychiatry in the USA in the 1960s. He lived at Kingsley Hall and attended to others there; and founded the Archway communities (shown in the film Asylum). After an informal apprenticeship with R D Laing, attending to mental and spiritual distress, he continues Laing’s emphasis on mindfulness, thoughtfulness and release, which he extends through developing an ethical-deconstructive practice of ‘Just Listening'. He is a qualified teacher of the Alexander Technique, a therapist in private practice, and a mediator with The Mediation Partnership.
Patricia Touton-Victor (back to top)
is a graduate from the Sorbonne (MA) and a Member of Pembroke College, Cambridge. After studying in Paris with the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne, she trained as a psychotherapist with the PA. She worked as a student counsellor for Cambridge University and was a house therapist at Freegrove, one of the PA houses, for four years. She currently has a private psychotherapy practice in London and Paris, and specialises in working with young professionals from different cultural backgrounds. She practises in English, French and Spanish. In addition, she runs training seminars and has taught for the Westminster Pastoral Foundation and associated agencies, and gives supervision.
