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Dr Whitaker continued his work in social justice around health during his studies and led the international response to anti-HIV immigration and travels laws in the USA.
Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Fulke, Dr. Chadderton, Mr. Dod, and other learned puritans, held their private meetings in the university, with a view to their own improvement in a knowledge of the holy scriptures.
- Psychopathology as Distraction. Whitaker saw “symptoms as mere signals of, or even noisome distractions from, the real existential problems faced by families—birth, growing up, separation, marriage, illness, and death” (Luepnitz, 2002), and contended–
- Responsibility of People in Therapy. Whitaker’s emphasis on personal freedom and responsibility derived from philosophers, such as Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, who considered the psychological implications of existentialist thought.
- Value of Courage. Whitaker regarded existential anxiety as an “irresolvable dialectic,” musing, “The effort to solve living as a problem is impossible … The process of facing the dialectic life … is endless, irresolvable, and poorly understood … Security alone equals slavery.
- Transformative Nature of Vulnerable Encounter. By daring to be vulnerable with people in therapy, Whitaker exposed families to an existential encounter.
William Whitaker (1548 – 4 December 1595) was a prominent Protestant Calvinistic Anglican churchman, academic, and theologian. He was Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a leading divine in the university in the latter half of the sixteenth century. His uncle was Alexander Nowell, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and catechist.
William Whitaker, MD, was a doctor of medicine of Franeker, incorporated at Oxford 13th June, 1653.
Sep 21, 2022 · Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE is a Founder and Patron of the Terrence Higgins Trust, named after his then-partner who died of AIDS in 1982, and is one of Britain’s longest-living people with HIV.
Jan 13, 2007 · Bill Whitaker was a well-loved physician cardiologist on the staff at Leeds General Infirmary. He was at the forefront of the development of invasive radiological techniques. Significant progress was rapidly made in Leeds by virtue of his personality and drive. He was born in Keighley, Yorkshire.
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