Steven T. Richards

Steven T. Richards was born on 22 March, 1957 in Liverpool, England. In 1989 he and his wife Pauline Richards founded the Psycho-Systems Analysis school of psychotherapy, as a union of Jungian-based psychodynamics and The New paradigm medical models of Professor George L Engel, and Dr Laurence Foss MD.

Richards went on to be a delegate to the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy Section (HIPS) of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy 1991 and a Consultative Council delegate to the British Association for Counselling 1992. He served on the Professional Issues Working Group of the European Association for Counselling in 1994.

In 1992, Franz Jung, son of Carl Jung, personally approved of Richards' synthesis of his father's work with scientific holistic-medicine. In 1996 Richards moved Psycho-Systems Analysis away from mainstream psychotherapy and into the holistic and complementary medical fields, citing the 'anti-medical' and 'psycho-reductive' stance of the mainstream psychotherapies.

In 1999 he founded the British Society for Clinical Psychophysiology (BSCP). BSCP is a regulating body for psychotherapists practicing within a scientific mind-body interactive paradigm. BSCP is now included 2006 by the British Department Of Health (Regulation Branch) in the consultation process for the future State Regulation of the profession of psychotherapy in the UK.

Richards is a psychotherapy consultant to the Institute for Complementary Medicine (ICM) of London and a director of the Medipsych Institute. Richards' biography is published in Who's Who in America (World, Science and Medicine editions). He has two children: Gareth and Rhiannon.