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Life

A short biography of Dr. Joseph H. Berke

Joseph Berke studied at Columbia College of Columbia University and graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He moved to London in 1965 where Berke worked with R. D. Laing in the 1960s when the Philadelphia Association was set up, and was resident at Kingsley Hall, where he helped Mary Barnes, a nurse who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia to emerge from madness. Barnes later became a famous artist, writer and mystic. A stage play based on the book that Berke and Barnes wrote together (Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness) was adapted as a stage play by David Edgar. Berke collaborated on a number of projects with R. D. Laing including the Dialectics of Liberation international conference in London,15-30 July 1967. Berke was the principal organizer of the conference.

 

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist for Individuals and Families. Co-Founder of the Arbours Association in London in 1970. Co-Founder and Director of the Arbours Crisis Centre, London, and a lecturer and teacher, Berke is the author of many articles and books on psychological, social, political and religious themes.

 

Joshua Berke is Professor of Neurology at the University of California ( San Francisco), Center for Integrative Neuroscience. He is married to Anna Grzymala-Busse, the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

 

Deborah Armstrong is an event producer and managing director of Strong and Co. Together with her husband, Phil Armstrong, they are organizers of the Glastonbury Festival (The Healing Field, Shangri-La). They have two boys: Wolfie and Ozzie.

OBITUARIES
Dr Joseph Berke, psychiatrist was a pioneer in his thinking

John Gulliver

Camden New Journal, 31 January 2021

Joseph Berke, ally of RD Laing and prime mover in the ‘anti-psychiatry’ and ‘anti-university’ movements

The Telegraph, London, 14 February 2021

Obituary: Psychotherapist and author Dr Joseph Berke

Morton Schatzman, MD

Ham&High, 22 January 2021

Tribute to Dr Joseph H. Berke

Victoria Tischler

The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, Vol. 42 No. 1 2021

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Dr Joseph Berke, psychiatrist was a pioneer in his thinking

John Gulliver

Islington Tribune, 31 January 2021

Joseph Berke: counterculture revolutionary

John Illman

BMJ, 11 March 2021

Joseph H. Berke 1939-2021

Morton Schatzman and Lois Elliott

British Journal of Psychotherapy Vol 37, p511-513

Remembering Joseph Berke

Compassionate Mental Health

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