Having obtained a Diploma in Psychological Medicine, he worked at the Ex-Servicemen's Welfare Hospital in Beckenham, The British Hospital for Mental Disorders and Brain Diseases in Camden Town, and the Maudsley Hospital.
is a family therapy for the treatment of anorexia nervosa devised by Christopher Dare and colleagues at the Maudsley Hospital in London.
In 1952, suffering from clinical depression and emotional problems, he admitted himself into the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in London.
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He was transferred from the Maudsley Hospital to the Netherne Hospital, where he stayed from November 1953 to January 1955, to work with Edward Adamson (1911–1996), a pioneer of art therapy.