Rex started his working life as a doctor and became less like one for the next few decades. His first experience in a therapeutic community was as a frightened and obedient medical student – but once he had got over the fright, he became less obedient but still managed to survive for over forty years as a medical psychotherapist in the British National Health Service, mostly in non-residential TCs. He remembers being criticised by an eminent psychiatric colleague for ‘going barefoot’ – but took it as a compliment. At home, he lived in a family-sized TC in Berkshire with his wife, four children, and a dysfunctional dalmatian. In retirement, he is now retreating to the woods to get away from the twenty-first century and all its awfulness. Being part of LLEs in interesting new places is his favourite hobby.
