Joseph William Thorpe Redfearn, (1921 – 9 June 2011) was an English army officer, medical physiologist, psychiatrist and analytical psychotherapist and writer.
[1] Back in the UK during his National service, he was head of the physiology unit in the army operational research group in the rank of captain.
[3][4][5][6] At the invitation of Sir Aubrey Lewis he applied for and gained a post at the Maudsley Hospital in South London where he became a consultant psychotherapist.
[1] Redfearn became a member of the founding generation of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and received clinical supervision from German refugee Gerhard Adler, himself trained by Carl Jung in Zürich.
[1] It demonstrates how treatment characteristic of SAP practitioners is centred on concern for patients whose breakdown threatens disintegration and who may be on or past the brink of psychosis.
[10][1] In 1974 with five other colleagues, among them, Dr. Camilla Bosanquet and Peter Lomas, Redfearn established an independent psychotherapy institution, the Guild of Psychotherapists.