He is a Catholic and a Zen Buddhist. He was Consultant Family Therapist and Head of Groupwork at the Medical Foundation for the care of Victims of Torture in London and later Director of Family Therapy Training at the University of Bristol. In Bristol he was also a practitioner and teacher of psychoanalytic family therapy practice at The Bridge Foundation. He is fascinated by the notion of trauma as one pole of life experience, characterised by constriction, in contrast to mysticism at the other pole of http://www.taplimited.org.uk/booklist.doc