John Rowan is the author of a number of books, including SUBPERSONALITIES (Routledge 1990), DISCOVER YOUR SUBPERSONALITIES (Routledge 1993), HEALING THE MALE PSHYCHE: Therapy as Initiation (Routledge 1997), THE REALITY GAME: A guide to humanistic counselling and therapy(Routledge 1998), ORDINARY ECSTACY: The dialectics of humanistic psychology (Routledge 2001), THE FUTURE OF TRAINING IIN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNCELLING (Routledge 2005), and THE TRANSPERSONAL: Spirituality in psychotherapy and counselling (Routledge 2005).

He has co-edited INNOVATIVE THERAPY IN BRITAIN (Open University Press 1988) with Windy Dryden, and THE PLURAL SELF: Multiplicity in everyday life with Mick Cooper (Sage 1999).

In addition he has six books of poetry published.

He is on the Editorial Board of Self & Society, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, the Transpersonal Psychology Review and the Counselling Psychology Review. He is a founder member of the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. He is a past member of the Governing Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a qualified individual and group psychotherapist (UKAHPP and UKCP), a chartered counselling psychologist (BPS) and a senior accredited counsellor and supervisor (BACP). He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and edits the BACP North London Magazine.

He has taught, supervised and led groups at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies, at the Serpent Institute and at the Minster Centre. His particular workshop interests are creativity, research, the dialogical self and the transpersonal. He has been leading groups since 1969, and now practises Primal Integration, which is a holistic approach to therapy.

He and his wife live in North Chingford, London: he has four children and four grandchildren from a previous marriage.