Richard Pearce obituary

My friend Richard Pearce, who has died aged 76, had a rich and extraordinary life encompassing three vocations: farmer, development economist and, in his last 20 years, he transformed himself into a psychotherapist, the profession he most cherished.

His psychotherapy practice in Bath was called the Quiet Space. The choice of this name was in his own words to highlight the place within us we often seek to find, and which, through the turbulence and sometimes anguish of living our lives we lose or fail to discover". His services were in great demand. Alongside this, he was active within the Society of Existential Analysis, writing numerous papers, especially on the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre on psychotherapy.