Author(s): Tony Taylor

Biographies & Memoirs

The renaissance man of New Zealand pschology was how colleague Jules Older characterized Professor Tony Taylor of Victoria University in Wellington, in the NZ Listener. The accolade reflects the astonishing range of internationally acclaimed original research Professor Taylor has published in 290 academic papers on subjects as eclectic as the differences between male and female prison tattoos, Antarctic stress, wind phobia,adolescent hysteria induced by The Beatles. Tony Taylor was the first professor of clinical psychology in the British Commonwealth -not bad for a poor kid who grew up between the world wars mired without prospects in London's Docklands. These memoirs demonstrate how he did it from cockney kid and wartime naval service to his present eminence helping the most destructive and stressed people in our community cope better with their lives.