Professor Petruska Clarkson, D. Litt. et Phil, Ph.D., Ph.D., FBPS, FBACP, C. Psychol. was a Consultant Philosopher, BPS Chartered Psychologist (organisational, counselling and clinical), UKCP registered Psychotherapist,  (qualified in individual, child, couples, sex and group psychotherapy) Recognised Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervisor (BAPPS) and  Chartered Management Consultant (IMC) with some 35 years’ international experience, who has more than 220 professional publications (24 languages) in these fields. She was also a qualified Reiki Master, a parfumier and was extremely skilled in facilitating others into writing and publishing their work - as well as achieving their unique goals.

Petruska had extensive training and supervision and was in teaching/supervisory positions for decades (and/or had personal experience of therapy) in all the major ‘schools’: Psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, Personal Construct Therapy, Family Therapy, Sex Therapy, Crisis Intervention and Solution-focused, Systemic (and Narrative) Approaches, Rogerian Person-centred Approaches, Integrative Psychotherapy, Phenomenology and Existentialist Approaches, Humanistic approaches, Tavistock, Relational and Interpersonal approaches, Hypnotherapy, Transpersonal psychotherapy approaches, Psychodrama, Creative Arts Therapies, Multi-cultural approaches, Gestalt and Experiential approaches, Transactional Analysis (TA), Bioenergetics,  Philosophical Counselling, NLP and EMDR. 

She had a great deal of media experience frequently on radio and being quoted in the popular press (from The Times to Cosmopolitan) featured in webcast debates and internet sites (Ananova and Big Brother) and appeared on various TV programmes (from Jon Snow’s Channel 4 programme and Sky News to Trisha, Esther, Killroy and Ruby Wax.)

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.