Having gained a BA degree in Modern Languages from Exeter University, Dinah Ashcroft pursued a successful career in education. She later qualified in humanistic psychology and in gestalt psychotherapy, in which she holds an MSc degree. She has been a trainer and examiner at several institutes. For five years she was an associate editor of the British Gestalt Journal. She is an examiner for MSc in gestalt psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute in conjunction with Middlesex University. She worked for 12 years in Primary Care, and now has a private practice offering psychotherapy and supervision near Winchester in Hampshire, UK.
Personality pathology is rooted in early development and affects a wide range of affects, behaviours and cognitive processes. Every year thousands of articles about the etiology pf personality... (more)