After resigning his army commission in 1952 he spent five years at the clinical psychiatry research unit of
Graylingwell Hospital, West Sussex, where along with Olof Lippold and others, he researched
depersonalization states and evoked critical potentials in animals, including humans and contributed to numerous scientific papers. At the invitation of Sir
Aubrey Lewis he applied for and gained a post at the
Maudsley Hospital in South London where he became a consultant psychotherapist. His much cited papers published in various journals reflect his enduring concern with the nature of the
Self and with the body and his concept of '
subpersonalities'. He greatly expanded these and other concerns in two seminal volumes,
My Self, My Many Selves and
The Exploding Self, a book whose theme could have been expanded into further volumes. It was intended as a pluralist professional programme to foster independence of clinical thought and practice. Redfearn and Bosanquet remained however members of the SAP. ==Family life==