Professor
Petruska Clarkson, Ph.D., D. Litt.et Phil., C. Psychol.
MIMC, is a Consultant Philosopher to individuals
and organizations, Fellow of the British Psychological
society, Fellow of the British Association of Counselling
and a certified member of the Institute of Management
Consultants. She is a business psychologist, consultant
chartered counselling- and chartered organizational psychologist,
research psychologist, psychotherapist, supervisor, and
organizational consultant at PHYSIS in London. She has
more than 150 publications (in 23 languages) based on
almost 30 years of international experience in philosophical
organizational consultancy, group dynamics, archetypal
psychology, new scientific paradigms in psychology, mental
health, creativity and personal development as well as
mentoring and supervising research into organizational
learning and consultancy.
She was Chair of the BPsS Counselling
Psychology Diploma Examinations Board and is currently
Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Roehampton
Institute of Surrey University and Visiting Professor
at Westminster University as well as for example being
involved with the Roffey, Middlesex Business School and
the Complexity Project at the LSE. She consults to various
international organizations and researches, trains and
supervises clinicians and consultants for doctorates and
professional qualifications in all the above fields (for
example supervising a recent Ph.D. candidate who completed
a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics on Knowledge
Management in the Information Systems Department applying
Clarkson philosophical models to organizational dynamics.
She was Honorary Secretary of the
Universities Association and has served on many
Ethics Boards and founded several organizations e.g. in
Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling. Her book Ethics:
Working with Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Psychotherapy
is based on extensive research integrating life, theory
and practice. As a sex educator for the last thirty years
she has done extensive work on Gender and Sexuality.
She is the author of the acclaimed
Therapeutic Relationship¹ and The Bystander¹
about social responsibility. She works co-operatively
as well as independently at the Centre for Qualitative
Research in Training and Supervision at PHYSIS; as past
Chair of the BPsS Psychotherapy Psychology Diploma Examination
Board, as Professor of Psychotherapy at University of
Surrey, Roehampton, visiting Professor at Westminster
University and at other training institutions and universities
(like the LSE Complexity in Organizations Project) in
the UK and abroad.
Recent peer reviewed papers include:
Philosophy for Complexity, Philosophy for Psychology and
Philosophy for Psychotherapy. Her third Ph.D. - entitled:
Physis - A Life Science study of auto-poiesis in psychoanalysis,
Jungian and other psychotherapies - applying the seven
level ontological and epistemological model - was submitted
in September 2001 to the University of Kent. It includes
an extensive section devoted to the study of the Heraclitean
fragments in the context of contemporary physics, complexity
science and psychological practice.
Address: 58 Harley Street,
London W1G 9QB.
e-mail: petruska.c@dial.pipex.com
