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As a student, Dave Mearns had additional paid employment as a bus driver and as a manager of a betting-shop. During a winter spell working in a sand-mine in arctic temperatures that resembled a Gulag he was reading Buber’s I and Thou. Such reading, along with the modern ‘death of God’ theological writings of the 1960s was unusual for a student of Maths and Physics and an atheist. Not surprising then that he switched his studies to Psychology and in 1972/73 took up the postgraduate position of Visiting Fellow to the Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla, California, under the stewardship of Carl Rogers. His early therapeutic internship involved him in daily therapeutic work with seriously traumatised war veterans. This sensitised him to the ‘existential’ and to the power of relationship in connecting with the private existential world of the other. In the past 20 years he has written seven books, including four best-sellers, founded the Counselling Unit of the University of Strathclyde and developed extensive primary care and school couselling services. His proudest academic event was being appointed ‘professor’ of the University in 1997 after previous promotions (both in 1993) to senior Lecturer and Reader. In his present early retirement he is interested to see that the University has replaced him by the appointment of two further professors of counselling. He lives with his long-term colleague, playmate and wife, Elke Lambers and admires the lives led by his daughters Kirsty and Tessa. His hobbies are hill-walking, cycling, fly-fishing, gardening and golf. His favourite territory is Chilean and Argentinean Patagonia which he visits frequently.
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