About

I obtained my scientific research doctorate before leaving academia
for a career in accountancy, within large international firms and then
in my own successful business. I qualified as a Chartered
Accountant, Tax Practitioner and Investment Adviser, and also took
some theological training as I explored the possibility of Anglican
ordination. A serious mental breakdown enforced my early
retirement from professional life. But this was a turning point, a
period of healing and spiritual growth. Together with my business
background this gives me a broad insight that I am able to put to
good use in this, my first book.

The photo is of me at the top of an extremely long and steep hill
which I successfully slogged up with Edwina Currie on our London to
Paris bikeride for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The 360 degree view at
the top was stunning! The bike is Edwina's!

Where did the idea for the book come
from?

...whilst on holiday in Turkey in 2004.

I was in the middle of a long process of healing
following the devastating mental breakdown and
burnout that for a while had turned my life upside
down. I was receiving excellent professional help for

As I thought more about what I was reading it seemed to me that the compassion
and vulnerability of the Wounded Healer could have a significance for healing our
dangerously fractured world far beyond the realms of the pastoral and medical
professions, where it is primarily researched and understood as a means of healing
and where most of the literature is to be found. Where else, I mused, can we find the
Wounded Healer in our lives? How, I thought, could we hope to heal this world when
so many of us have our own unhealed spiritual and mental wounds, and so much of
our destructive behavior is because of those wounds; when for so many of us it is
not regarded as appropriate in our working lives to show too much compassion, let
alone vulnerability.

But I had not realized the enormity of the project I had started.........

And do you have a favourite book by him?

Oh yes, undoubtedly his short bestselling gem, The Wounded Healer. But several of
his books became valuable and reliable sources of comfort and support in my pain.