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Andrew Powell is the founding chair of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP). A fellow of the RCP, he practiced medicine as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in London and Oxford for more than a quarter century. Dr. Powell was educated at the Braynston School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He attended St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London for his clinical training and received his bachelor of medicine degree with distinction and his bachelor of surgery degree from Cambridge in 1969. After working first in psychiatry and then in general medicine, he took two years of post-graduate training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, followed by three years of post-graduate training in psychotherapy there. Dr. Powell served as a consultant psychotherapist and chief of the department of psychotherapy at St. George’s Hospital, London, and a senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of London from 1978 to 1989 where he was co-director of the master’s degree program in psychotherapy. For the next eleven years, he was consultant psychotherapist at Warneford Hospital in Oxford and honorary senior lecturer in psychotherapy at Oxford University. He served as co-director of Oxford’s introductory course in psychodynamic therapy. A member of the Royal College of Physicians, the Institute of Group Analysis in London, and the British Psychodrama Association, Dr. Powell has published numerous papers in scientific and medical journals. He is also the co-author (with Bisong Guo) of Listen to Your Body: The Wisdom of Dao, which was published in 2001 by the University of Hawaii Press.
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