About The Author

Graham Bull was born and grew up in New Zealand. He attended Holy Name Seminary and studied philosophy, religious studies and anthropology at Victoria University gaining a BA and MA. After graduation, he stayed for a short time at the Jerusalem commune founded by New Zealand poet, James K. Baxter, at Jerusalem in New Zealand. On first going to London in the 1970’s, he attended seminars in Existential and Phenomenological psychotherapy at The Philadelphia Association and was present at some seminars given by R.D. Laing and also some given by the anthropologist Francis Huxley. Graham trained as an Intercultural therapist under Jafar Kareen and Roland Littlewood at University College London and Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre. After this, he trained as a Lacanian psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, of which he is a member. He completed a PhD on healing amongst Chinese tang-ki spirit mediums, under Professor Roland Littlewood at University College London. Much later, he completed an M.A. in theology at The Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham. While travelling in South East Asia in the 1980’s, Graham learnt mindfulness meditation under the well-known Buddhist monk, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu at Suan Mokkh monastery. Later he completed a postgraduate diploma in teaching mindfulness, at Bangor University, in Wales. Most of his working life has been in the mental health field, working as a counsellor, a manager of a counselling centre, a trauma counsellor for refugees and as a psychotherapist in a psychiatric hospital for teenagers. He is ordained as an (Independent) Catholic priest in The United Ecumenical Catholic Church. At present, he lives with his wife Mee Ying on a three-acre retreat setting in the Horowhenua region of New Zealand, where he sees a few analytic clients, teaches meditation, runs retreats mainly for individuals and tends to the animals and the organic garden on the homestead.