Blake’s Role in Modern Mental Health

Stephen Pritchard is Secretary of the Blake Society. He studied Blake at Exeter College, Oxford, teaching undergraduates and running classes on Blake. Stephen co-founded the WOMAD Festival in 1982 with four friends and Peter Gabriel. He is also on the committee and a host for the Jung Lectures, Bristol. Stephen taught drama for many years and has made eight educational drama films, and recently created and directed a multimedia play, Albion, Awake! about William and Catherine Blake’s life and work.

Jason Wright is a Transpersonal and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, and author. For twelve years, he was Clinical Director and CEO for the CORE Trust the holistic addictions charity. Prior to this he was a company manager, producer and director in theatre. He has since founded Number 42, a group psychotherapy practice in Central London offering a diverse range of therapeutic practices: he sustains his private practice there and in North London. His interest in psychotherapy has been the development of a communal and shared foundation to our becoming, which he articulates in Blake’s Job: Adventures in becoming, as movement from a consciousness of exploitation to a consciousness of resonance.