Mark Vernon is a British psychotherapist and writer.

Biography

Vernon has a degree in theology from the University of Oxford and another theology degree and a physics degree from Durham University. He received a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy from the University of Warwick. Vernon is the author of several books on subjects from friendship and belief, to wellbeing and love, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness (2019), based upon the ideas of the Oxford Inkling, Owen Barfield, Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey., and most recently, Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. He is a columnist for The Idler, and has written for Aeon, Church Times and The Tablet, amongst other publications. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze, In Our Time, alongside other programmes, and also regularly podcasts and posts YouTubes, including the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake. Vernon was formerly a Church of England priest. Vernon has a private psychotherapy practice and has also worked at the Maudsley Hospital.

Works