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Mr Peter Afford

Lecturer

Contact at affordp@regents.ac.uk

Department

School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology

Faculty

HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)

Professional affiliation(s)

  • UKCP Member
  • BACP
  • Focusing Institute & BFTA

Qualifications

  • BMA Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy
  • PG Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling
  • Focusing Trainer & Co-ordinator  

Biography

Peter is a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice in South London. He has been teaching Focusing since the 80's, working as a therapist since 1993, and has taught and supervised on the ADIP course at Regent's College since 2005.

Course Development

None

PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and examining

None 

Research Interests

  • The relevance of neurobiology to psychotherapy

Accreditation with professional bodies

  • UKCP
  • BACP  

Publications 

  • A Scientific Theory of Focusing, a paper given at the Focusing International conference, May 2010
  • Neuroscience: Bags of Evidence for the Practice of Psychosynthesis, paper given at the Psychosynthesis Trust Research Conference, September 2009
  • Why Focusing Makes The Human Brain Work Properly, a paper given at the Focusing International conference, May 2008
  • Get Your Head Around The Thing Inside It, International Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol.11 No.1, 2007
  • Bodybrain: Focusing In The Light Of Neuroscience, a paper given at the Focusing International conference, May 2006
  • Reflections on Being (Some Sort of) a Focusing-Oriented Therapist, Self & Society, Vol.33 No.2, 2005

Page last updated 4/18/2011