When he reached the age of eighteen in 1943, Rowan was called up to serve in the
British Army. Rowan spent several years working in various occupations including encyclopedia sales, teaching, telecommunications, accountancy, research, and other office-based jobs. but left the Party over the
Turner Controversy. After gaining a degree, Rowan built a career in market research. He held the position of Managing Director at the Bureau of Commercial Research. In the same year Rowan joined the
Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP), which he would eventually chair. During 1971, he co-led groups at Centre 42 in
Kensington, and then later in 1972 at the Kaleidoscope Centre in
Swiss Cottage. model. This work is a summary and guide to all the branches of
Humanistic psychology. He also helped to produce the radical men's magazine
Achilles Heel. In 1978, he helped to found, with Giora Doron, the
Hampstead-based Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies. During 1978, Rowan became interested in
Primal Integration, training with this movement's founder
Bill Swartley. Rowan then offered this therapy as part of his practice. In 1980, Rowan helped to found the Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners, later to be known as the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. In 1989, Rowan co-founded the Serpent Institute with Jocelyn Chaplin. where he worked for ten years. Whilst there he trained psychotherapists, lead seminars, experiential training groups and supervision groups. He left the Centre in 2004, and worked in private practice, as well as provided master classes and workshops. ==Education==