John Rowan obituary

My colleague John Rowan, who has died aged 93, was known as the father of British humanistic psychology - a field to which he made vital literary and theoretical contributions.

Humanistic psychology, which emphasises human existential values and radical therapy approaches, reached Britain from the US during the countercultural years of the 1950s and 60s. John joined the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) in 1969 and soon became its chair.