Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge
Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge
Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge
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Brian was born on 6 January 1925, in London. Beginning in 1943, aged 18,<br />
Brian served in the RAF as a pilot, earning a commission in Transport<br />
Command by 1947. In 1949, he earned a BA, and, by 1951, his MA.Through<br />
the late 1940s and early 1950s, Brian was not only a student and a soldier, but<br />
also engaged in the 1948 Olympic Games Organising Committee and in the<br />
Colonial Development Corporation before working for the Seismograph<br />
Service Ltd and Seismograph Service Italiana, based in Rome.<br />
In the decade 1959 to 1969, Brian fostered two lifelong passions. One was his<br />
career in psychotherapy. After work with the Wellcome Foundation, Brian<br />
earned a position as Hon. Psychotherapist at Farnborough Hospital in Kent in<br />
1976. That position proved to be part <strong>of</strong> an admirable career as Brian<br />
distinguished himself at several other institutions including the Penelope Lady<br />
Balock Psychotherapy Trust, London; <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Cork; and Holistic<br />
Education and Research Trust, Cumbria. Some <strong>of</strong> his greatest pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
contributions include chairing the Association for Group and Individual<br />
Psychotherapy (AGIP) from 1978 to 1980, and founding the South London<br />
Psychotherapy Centre. One <strong>of</strong> his psychotherapy colleagues believed that Brian<br />
embodied the philosophy <strong>of</strong> relating to patients with authenticity and<br />
imagination by cultivating wisdom, compassion, and love. This colleague<br />
reflected that Brian,“with his deep, sonorous voice, his elliptical comments, and<br />
carefully chosen words … would invariably bring a new perspective to others,<br />
inviting them to see their predicaments within a large, and <strong>of</strong>ten mythical frame.<br />
He enabled others to move forward with life-changing insight”.<br />
Yet Brian was not only a world-class psychotherapist. In the 1960s, Brian took<br />
a course in metalworking at London’s Central School <strong>of</strong> Arts & Crafts, after<br />
which he set up The Wild Goose Studio with his long-time friend Kathleen<br />
Smyth. In a coastal town in County Cork, the Studio began to make faithful<br />
reproductions <strong>of</strong> Celtic artefacts in bronze and cast iron. For nearly two<br />
decades, this studio survived rather as a cottage industry. However, when Brian<br />
moved to Ireland permanently in 1987, he devoted more time to the Studio<br />
and realised his vision <strong>of</strong> inspiring his customers’ imaginations through a<br />
fusion <strong>of</strong> image and idea on a larger scale, and soon was exporting pieces<br />
throughout the UK and the USA. In the mid-1990s, Wild Goose Studio grew<br />
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OBITUARIES