I retired a couple of years ago after a career which encompassed being an electronics engineer, a medical sociologist, alcohologist  and a psychotherapist. I received my PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London in 1979.  In the latter years I was Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Psychotherapy which I had founded at the University of Kent in the UK. The resources section of this site puts many of the questionnaires I developed, including the AAPPQ into the public domain.   

I had always written computer applications as a hobby but as computers became more powerful the possibilities for teaching and research became apparent and I began writing the Code-A-Text Multi-Media System. With retirement from clinical and teaching work I established Code-A-Text Ltd and completed this programme. This process took me back into areas of social science I had long left  my work is as much to do  with sociology, psychology and the arts as psychotherapy. C-I-SAID was written as a general research tool which can encompass both qualitative and quantitative methods of enquiry, reflecting my own work experience.

In the last few years I have become involved in photography.  I received my  LRPS from the Royal Photographic Society in 2002.  With my photography, I developed an interest in natural abstractions and abstract art generally.  My latest programme, Kaleid-O-Scope evolved from experiments in mixing computer generated graphics and natural photographs.

Alan Cartwright PhD, LRPS.

Developer Code-A-Text Applications.