Thursday Jul 30, 2020

Brian Thomas-Peter

Author

The Kissing Fence

About the Speaker
- Brian Thomas-Peter is Canadian but lived in the UK from being a teenager where he trained as a Clinical Psychologist. He worked with children in care, adults with mental health difficulties and the families of elderly mentally infirm, and then joined a high security forensic psychiatry service.
  
  Helping those with damaging backgrounds and mental disorder became his life’s work, as an academic, clinician and manager. He trained others in Australia and the UK, and was in demand to provide expert psychological evidence in major criminal trials in the UK and advice to Parole Boards. He advised State governments in Australia and major Inquiries into Untoward Incidents in psychiatric services in the UK and Australia.
  
  His academic life included three international fellowships and an 11-year tenure as Honorary Professor of Psychology at Birmingham University. He has published in edited books, peer-reviewed journals and been a regular contributor to international academic conferences.
  
  He moved to Oxford as Director of the Regional Forensic Psychiatry service before returning to Canada in 2010 as Provincial Executive Director of Forensic Psychiatry for B.C.
  
  Brian currently lives on an island on the west coast of Canada, runs a small consultancy and spends most of his time writing. He is the author of ‘The Last Truth’ (Unbound 2016), which draws on his professional experience. His latest book is 'The Kissing Fence.'
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Brian Thomas-Peter has written a deeply moving and engrossing historical novel, The Kissing Fence, published by Caitlin Press this spring.

Did you miss the Bowen Rotary meeting of July 30, or would you like to revisit the presentation of The Kissing Fence by Brian Thomas-Peter?

The Zoom recording of the meeting is now posted at:
Guest speaker: Brian Thomas-Peter

The Kissing Fence explores the Doukhobor experience in B.C., beginning in the 1950s.

All Canadians who heard the news on September 9, 1953, remember the shocking stories about the RCMP raid on the Doukhobor community of Perry Siding in the Kootenays. This event is seminal to Brian’s story. The police were enforcing a law prohibiting public nudity that was passed in 1931. The Dukhobors were using nakedness to express their opposition to military conscription and to public schooling for their children.

The scope of the story includes life in and around Vancouver as well as in the remote Kootenays.

Jenny Penberthy has written a compelling review and introduction to The Kissing Fence in the April 16th edition of the Bowen Island Undercurrent.

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