ABSTRACT

This chapter presents an interview of Paul Brown, who is both a clinical and an occupational psychologist. This creates a division in the way he uses his time but not in his essential interests, which are to do with the individual’s capacity to realize potential. His work beyond the confines of the National Health Service (NHS) started twelve years ago, when he resigned his NHS and university appointments to pursue a personal experiment in how a clinical psychologist might survive in a freelance or self-employed manner. He was the founding chairman of the Association of Sexual and Marital Therapists; proposed the formation of the Counselling Section of the British Psychological Society; and has just completed a period as chairman of the Association of Clinical Psychologists in Private Practice. Clinically he works especially in sex and marital therapy. His professionally independent position and willingness to explore the boundaries of attachment to and separation from organizations is reflected in the interview.