Ian is responsible for the original development of Affectology and contemporary variants operating under the umbrella term "Clinical Affectology", their education and the training of professional therapists throughout Australia and Internationally, since 1993.
As this is a uniquely Australian development, it is correct to say that he is the foremost authority on affectology, a term that he coined, and the focus of its clinical approaches to therapy towards discrete affect response patterns.
A long-term advocate of “subconscious-domain privacy” in psychotherapy, particularly emotional and psychosomatic therapy, he has been a Director of the International Centre for Subconscious-mind Training and Research, and the Centre for Affectological Therapy Research and Training, Australasia. He has been responsible for the development of professional directive training for general emotion therapists and clinical affectology practitioners.
Although he maintains a practice in Outer Sydney, his focus has been on the development of an understanding of Theoretical and Applied Affectology and formulating those understandings in a manner conducive to effective therapeutic approaches and education and training in that area.
From an early background in Zen therapy and mindfulness meditation teaching, he has moved through many years of application of “private” therapy to his current position as Principal of the School of Affectology. He taught meditation in Zen and Taoist mindfulness traditions for 14 years. Clinical Affectology is a true meeting of the science of the West and some of the philosophies of the East.
Until 1993 he was a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University (A.N.U.), at which time he moved from Canberra to establish clinical practices in Sydney, and continue with the development of professional practitioner training.
He is the Director and Principal of the School of Affectology (International) and the Euro-Scandin School of Affectology (Sweden).
He is a long-standing member of the Advisory Council of the prestigious International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry - ISEPP, U.S.A., a senior member of the International Guild of Affectologists (IGA), and a Research Consultant of the Academy of Psychotherapy and Counseling in Athens, Greece.
During 2002 he was invited to practice and teach in Sweden, where he completed the first successful training program for clinical affectologists in Northern Europe. Other European extended training programs followed, including Athens, Greece in 2009-2010 and 2014.
As this is a uniquely Australian development, it is correct to say that he is the foremost authority on affectology, a term that he coined, and the focus of its clinical approaches to therapy towards discrete affect response patterns.
A long-term advocate of “subconscious-domain privacy” in psychotherapy, particularly emotional and psychosomatic therapy, he has been a Director of the International Centre for Subconscious-mind Training and Research, and the Centre for Affectological Therapy Research and Training, Australasia. He has been responsible for the development of professional directive training for general emotion therapists and clinical affectology practitioners.
Although he maintains a practice in Outer Sydney, his focus has been on the development of an understanding of Theoretical and Applied Affectology and formulating those understandings in a manner conducive to effective therapeutic approaches and education and training in that area.
From an early background in Zen therapy and mindfulness meditation teaching, he has moved through many years of application of “private” therapy to his current position as Principal of the School of Affectology. He taught meditation in Zen and Taoist mindfulness traditions for 14 years. Clinical Affectology is a true meeting of the science of the West and some of the philosophies of the East.
Until 1993 he was a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University (A.N.U.), at which time he moved from Canberra to establish clinical practices in Sydney, and continue with the development of professional practitioner training.
He is the Director and Principal of the School of Affectology (International) and the Euro-Scandin School of Affectology (Sweden).
He is a long-standing member of the Advisory Council of the prestigious International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry - ISEPP, U.S.A., a senior member of the International Guild of Affectologists (IGA), and a Research Consultant of the Academy of Psychotherapy and Counseling in Athens, Greece.
During 2002 he was invited to practice and teach in Sweden, where he completed the first successful training program for clinical affectologists in Northern Europe. Other European extended training programs followed, including Athens, Greece in 2009-2010 and 2014.