Interview with Clark Baim

Описание: Clark Baim, PhD. is a registered Senior Trainer in psychodrama psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA), clinical and training supervisor, and consultant with more than 35 years of experience working in the UK and internationally. He is the Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama (UK). From 2017 to 2022, he served as the Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association, and he is a recipient of the BPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). He has a particular focus on psychotherapy in forensic settings, including prisons, young offender institutions and forensic hospitals. In the 1990s, Clark worked as a group psychotherapist at HM Prison Grendon, near Aylesbury, UK. He served as a Lead National Trainer for the Probation Service’s sexual offending intervention programmes in the UK from 2000-2012.

A native of Chicago, Clark settled in Birmingham, UK in the 1980s. He has worked in 33 countries and has facilitated workshops and clinical and staff training sessions in more than 250 institutions and organisations. He has presented workshops and keynote addresses at more than 100 professional conferences.
After touring as a performer with the original USA Geese Theatre Company, in 1987 he was the founding Director of Geese Theatre Company UK, using applied theatre in criminal justice and social welfare settings. He is now on their Board of Trustees.

Clark has published widely on topics including applied theatre, psychodrama, co-working, criminal justice interventions and attachment-based practice. He is co-author of the Geese Theatre Handbook (2002), Creating Life Story Theatre (2025) and author of Staging the Personal (2020). Among his other publications, he co-authored with Tony Morrison the best-selling book, Attachment-based Practice with Adults: Understanding Strategies and Promoting Positive Change (Pavilion Publishing, 2022, 2nd edition). This is a user-friendly introduction to the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM), for practitioners. A companion volume, Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families, was published in 2023. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter.