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This article dredges up some of my most vivid memories of the early days in humanistic and radical psychology in this country. The 1970s were very exciting for me, and also for the practice of therapy—particularly group therapy—in this country. And the formation of the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (AHPP) was a highly significant move, followed as it was by the founding of the British Association for Counselling (or BAC, as it was then) accreditation scheme, which took over many of the ideas worked out in the AHPP. When the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) came to be formed, two of the three people who wrote the identity statement for the Humanistic and Integrative Section (as it was then) came from the AHPP.
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John Rowan
John Rowan is now well known as a humanistic therapist and writer, and has also done a good deal of work in the transpersonal area. His more recent efforts in the area of the Dialogical Self have borne fruit both in his work and in his writing. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and also of the BACP and UKCP. He has consistently pushed for more attention to the Primal and to the Transpersonal, which he has dubbed the Terrible Twins of Therapy. His most recent book is Personification.