Joseph Berke
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Joseph H. Berke, M.D., is an individual and family psychotherapist. He is the Founder and Director of the Arbours Crisis Centre, London, and a lecturer and teacher. He is the author of many articles and books on psychological, social, political and religious themes, including Mary Barnes:Two Accounts of a Journey through Madness (with Mary Barnes), I Haven't Had To Go Mad Here, The Tyranny of Malice: Exploring the Dark Side of Character and Culture, Sanctuary: The Arbours Experience of Alternative Community Care (co-editor) and Even Paranoids Have Enemies: New Perspectives on Paranoia and Persecution (co-editor). He is currently working on several books including Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah (with Stanley Schneider) and Beyond Madness: PsychoSocial Interventions in Psychosis (co-editor).
Berke worked with R. D. Laing in the 1960's when the Philadelphia Association was set up, and was resident psychiatrist at Kingsley Hall, where he helped Mary Barnes, an artist diagnosed with schizophrenia who later became famous.
