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OPEN

‘Charles Layton’

Make-Over Madness

 

eIpnosis in conversation with Fitness to Practise Consultant, ‘Charles Layton’

TEXT

PODCAST

‘Charles Layton’

The State Regulated Mind

 

eIpnosis in conversation with 'Fitness to Practise' Consultant, ‘Charles Layton’

TEXT

PODCAST

‘Charles Layton’

The Sav**oy Declaration

‘Charles Layton’ describes how the 2007 Savoy Declaration defining psychotherapy came to be made.

PODCAST

‘Charles Layton’

Interview with ‘Rose Budd’

‘Many practitioners seem content to leave not only debate and decisions about the future direction of the psychological therapies to others.'

TEXT

PODCAST

Alderdice, Lord John

Psychotherapy Bill

.

The Psychotherapy Bill was 'given its first reading', i.e. introduced, in the House of Lords, on May 18th 1999

OPEN

Anon

UKCP Discussion Document

"Organisational Development issues for the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy following the AGM 2003."

 

This 16pp draft document, sent anonymously to Ipnosis, had apparently been submitted to the UKCP Governing Board and amended after discussions there.

OPEN

Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the UK

Foster Review of the Regulation of the Non-Medical Healthcare Professions

Response to Department of Health Consultation

OPEN

Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Review of NICE Guidelines

 

From the APP Newsletter, February 2006. National Clinical Practice Guideline (NICE Guidelines on Depression)- Core Interventions in the Management of Depression in Primary and Secondary Care.

OPEN

BAC journal Counselling.

 

The Psychotherapy Bill - a BAC Statement

 

The following statements appeared in the British Association of Counselling [BAC] May and June 2000 issues of their journal Counselling.

 

OPEN

BACP

Press release

 

 

OPEN

BACP and UKCP

 

The psychological therapies, Mapping Questionnaire

Transcript of the joint BACP and UKCP website questionnaire that claims to be mapping the territory of UK psychopractice on behalf of the DoH.

OPEN

Barber, Professor Paul

 

Keeping Psychotherapy Trainees in Their Place —

How Training Institutions can Stifle Love and Breed Compliance

OPEN

Bates, Yvonne

Still Whingeing

 

The Professionalisation of Counselling

OPEN

Brooks, Natalie

Soul Women

'The soul is uncontained and wild. It lives dangerously

and is beauty in its mess.'

OPEN

Brown, Tim

Why State Regulation of the psychological therapies is problematic

A brief introduction that emphasizes anomalies in the HPC /DoH plans

OPEN

Casement, Anne

 

Straw Poll Talkback phone-in, Radio4 September 4, 1999

transcript Anne Casement

Straw Poll Talkback phone-in, Radio4 September 4, 1999

OPEN

China, Jacques President of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK

College of Psychoanalysts News March 28 2005

letter, dated 10th March 2005,

 

OPEN

Clark, Alec

 

Letter on Adoption

to the UKCP journal, The Psychotherapist

OPEN

Clarkson, Petruska

False Facts

 

Extract from 'War, bystanding and hate ­ Why Category Errors are dangerous'.

OPEN

Clarkson, Professor Petruska

 

IS THERAPY HARMFUL?

 

notes from her presentation at the "THERAPY HURTS?" CONFERENCE 30.10.99

OPEN

College of Psychoanalysts

State Regulation and Psychoanalysis: the Position of the College of Psychoanalysts

September 4th 2005

This is a statement by The College of Psychoanalysts in relation to the issue of state-regulation and psychoanalysis that was recently forwarded to IPNOSIS. I have preserved the formatting and emphasis of the sender.

OPEN

Cook, Andrew

 

What kind of regulatory framework do we really want to work in?

A personal response to compulsory state regulation.

OPEN

Crepaz-Leah, David

Psychological Therapies in the NHS Conference 2007

Transcript of service user speech

OPEN

Denis Postle

Accountability for client/ practitioner relationships in UK psycho-practice

 

Document submitted to Department of Health Foster Review of non-medical regulation, 2005

OPEN

Denis Postle

Love Works

Introduction to The Independent Practitioners Network [IPN] from the IPN Conference, 'Democracy and Therapeutic Practice' March 31st-April1st 2007

OPEN

Department of Health proposals

Health Professions Council

 

Outline of the Department of Health proposals 13th March 2001

OPEN

eIpnosis

Still more on the Psychotherapy Bill

Commentary

OPEN

eIpnosis

Psychotherapy Bill review

 

This is a detailed and comprehensive review of the first draft of The Psychotherapy Private Members Bill devised by Lord Alderdice, currently (October 1999) out for consultation with BCP and UKCP and presumably, BPS and BACP

OPEN

eIpnosis

Short Introduction to State Regulation of the psychological therapies

‘Were you wondering what State regulation [SR] of the psychological therapies might mean for the future of your practice?

This eIpnosis overview looks at what is at stake’.

 

OPEN

eIpnosis

MP Sample Letter Text

 

Write to your MP about plans for statutory regulation of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Here are some paragraphs that might form the basis for such a letter.

OPEN

eIpnosis

PCUK Mission Accomplished

If UKCP succeeded in 'putting the pieces together...'

Ipnosis poster

OPEN

eIpnosis

LEGAL notes

 

OPEN

eIpnosis article

CONFERENCE REPORT

 

IPNOSIS attended a late October conference in London to launch Therapy on the Couch Camden Press, editor Susan Greenberg; a well put together and timely contribution to the debate about the regulation of psychotherapy in the UK.

OPEN

eIpnosis article

HPC Open Letter

 

Open Letter to professional organizations within psychotherapy and counselling about progress towards statutory regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors

OPEN

eIpnosis article

Ipnosis Sound Bites

State Regulation - Keeping our eye on the ball

 

OPEN

eIpnosis critical review

HPC Special #2

 

selected HPC documents from

The Health Professions Council: Creeds and Commandments of a technocratic religion

OPEN

eIpnosis EDITORIAL

The British Psychological Society Signs Up to State Regulation

- One Down, Three to Go?

 

 

OPEN

eIpnosis editorial

An Established Church of False Promises

 

Article raising consciousness about incongruence and dubious promises made by the UKCP about the benefits of state regulation of the psychological therapies

OPEN

eIpnosis editorial

First Quarter 2005 Developments in UK Psychopractice,

from IPNOSIS March 28th 2005

 

OPEN

eIpnosis EDITORIAL

Guilt Hardens the Heart

December 2006

 

Responses to the consultation phase of the Foster review of non medical health care professions have been with the DoH for a few weeks now. Those that Ipnosis has seen express very significant doubt about the Foster review which, as ipnosis readers will recall, doesn't mention the psychological therapies at all

OPEN

eIpnosis editorial

Speaking the Unspeakable #1

 

The recent College of Psychoanalysts Conference on State Regulation generated an after-reaction in ipnosis that lasted several days.

OPEN

eIpnosis editorial

Speaking the Unspeakable #2

'...Now and again I try to remind myself why I am convinced that state regulation of psychopractice is problematic and harmful to both client and practitioner interests.

 

Hidden behind the benign protective promises of psychopractice regulation and the reasonable voices patiently lining you up for it, is a death threat. In a vain attempt to guarantee client safety, it will kill, in the sense of 'uprooting those plants considered to be weeds', as a onetime Chair of UKCP described it, is intended to kill, wildness, the esoteric, the exotic, and the unpredictable, that are involved in the unavoidably haphazard tasks of helping people find their way out of corners into which they may have become painted.'

OPEN

eIpnosis editorial

The Regulation Journey - From Taxonomy to Taxidermy

AUGUST 13 2006

'As was promised at the end of 2005, the accumulated knowhow of psychopractice is to be subject to a formidable array of technical experts whose declared field is taxonomy, i.e. to treat the subtle, often ineffable skills of human interaction, as though they were trays of butterflies to be catalogued.'

OPEN

eIpnosis feature

PsycholOdeon

comment, irony, humour and the occasional rant

The Huge Mistake of state regulation of the psychological therapies is increasingly engaging the attention of the ethically challenged accrediting bodies. As a prompt for their lack of ethical awareness, eIpnosis adds to the debate about SR, One video by eIpnosis on research validity, and eight videos from two new eIpnosis voices; Guy Gladstone of the Open Centre, a psychotherapist and group conductor with 24 years experience, and Janet Low, a psychoanalyst.

OPEN

eIpnosis feature

Psychological Therapies in the NHS Conference

 

The New Savoy Declaration defining psychotherapy revised by eIpnosis

OPEN

eIpnosis report

The State Regulation Train is Leaving the station... or is the Station Leaving the Train? report on the June 10 Psychological Therapies Reference Group meeting
OPEN

eIpnosis report

Psychological Therapies in the NHS Conference 2007

Conference Report

OPEN

eIpnosis report

The Dogs That Didn't Bark

A Report on the Psychological Therapies Reference Group Meeting 18th September 2007

OPEN

eIpnosis report

The Hamburgerization of Personal Development

A Report on the Psychological Therapies Reference Group Meeting 18th September 2007

OPEN

eIpnosis Report

'Next Steps' - to Happiness?

Reflections on the Psychological Therapies Reference Group Meeting 18th September 2007

Reflections on the Psychological Therapies Reference Group Meeting 18th September 2007

OPEN

eIpnosis report

Ipnosis recently suggested to Marc Lyall that Skills for Health [SfH] post all the submissions to the National Occupation Standard Consultation on their web-site.

 

OPEN

eIpnosis report

From ‘Yes, But’, to ‘No, Unless’? Or PNC? – Plus marine and other metaphors for current approaches to regulatory folly.

 

Ipnosis reflections on the Psychotherapy and Counselling Reference Group Meeting March 29 2007

OPEN

eIpnosis report

HPC Special #1

Ipnosis Special - The Health Professions Council #1

 

Account of Ipnosis meeting with Marc Seale and Rachel Tripp of the HPC

OPEN

eIpnosis report

HPC Special #3

The Health Professions Council

An account of the experiences of a user of an HPC registrant’s services and how the HPC failed to meet her needs for resolution of her complaint.

OPEN

eIPNOSIS EDITORIAL

POWER, AUTHORITY and VALIDITY – The IAPT/CBT Nexus

 

Correspondence

In recent correspondence in the national press Professor Andrew Samuels, UKCP Fellow, challenged the wisdom of the UK government's IAPT initiative and its capture by CBT. This and a pained response to his letters by David Veale, President of the BABCP, plus Samuels' replies, are posted here.

OPEN

Evans, Julia

Health Professions Council’s ‘In Focus’ house journal (issue 8 – December 2006)

Some comments on this document

OPEN

Evans, Julia

 

The Health Professions Council’s ‘In Focus’ journal (issue 8 – December 2006)

Commentary

OPEN

Foster Report

The Foster Report Quotes

 

- these selected quotes from are intended to convey the report's flavour, orientation and some of the policy decisions that it outlines.

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy

STOP SR

A detailed set of arguments against SR of the psychological therapies plus a call for it to be dropped.

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy

COMMENTS ON HEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS

(MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) NO 2 ORDER 2008

 

 

A submission to the Statutory Consultation regarding state regulation of the British Psychological Society and applied psychology members

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy

STATE REGULATION: ILLUSORY, UNETHICAL, AND HAZARDOUS -

Eleven good reasons to oppose SR

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy

Troubled Times

In A Paperweight Palatinate

 

Wesley Tantrum reports from the UKCP Court, Buxton, March 2008

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy

- STOP State Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy

'The push towards state regulation emanates from an alliance of training and accreditation organisations (BACP and UKCP) concerned with extending control over entry into therapeutic practice.'

An invitation to support action to stop the introduction of state regulation of the psychological therapies

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy

Letter by Guy Gladstone, published in The Psychotherapist UKCP Summer 2006.

eIpnosis readers may be interested/amused to note the excerpts from UKCP Chair Lisa Wakes' response following the letter.

OPEN

Gladstone, Guy Hall, Jill; Hatfield, Sue: House, Richard; Lindsay, Grace; Postle, Denis

Stop State Regulation of the psychological therapies

list of practitioners who are opposed to state regulation

OPEN

Hall, Jill Hatfield, Sue Lindsay, Grace,

A letter to MPs, or GPs

Some suggestions for resisting state regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy from: IPN, Norwich

OPEN

Hall, Jill; Hatfield Sue; and Lindsay, Grace

How to Resist State Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy

 

Some suggestions from IPN, participants in Norwich

OPEN

Hansard quotes

Government Kills the Psychotherapy Bill

 

OPEN

Health Professions Council Call for ideas on the statutory(?) regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors Closing date 24 October 2008 press release

OPEN

Heron, John

Original theory of co-counselling & the paradigm shift

A talk given at Co-counselling International Teachers meeting at Harlech, Wales, on 28 July 1995.

OPEN

Heward Wilkinson/Nick Totton

email Chat

IPN, UKCP & Statutory Regulation

an e-mail dialogue between Nick Totton, IPN and Heward Wilkinson, Board member, UKCP 1999 date

 

OPEN

Hogan, Daniel B.

Article extracted from MINDFIELD: Therapy on the Couch Camden Press 1999 by permission of the author of the 4 vol. 'Regulation of Psychotherapists'

 

 

'The US has had statutory registration for years, so there has been plenty of time to see which model works best. The answer: to both protect and serve the public, you need to control the profession's output, not input'.

OPEN

House, Richard

Therapy Beyond Modernity: deconstructing and transcending profession-centred therapy

 

Contents
Excerpt
Introduction
Quotes

House, Richard

NHS psychotherapy and its discontents: finding creativity amidst the conflict

 

Critical review of British Medical Journal article - '
...It would be wrong to assume that those who are sceptical about the institutional professionalisation of psychotherapy are ‘against’ any kind of accountability whatsoever; rather, we are in favour of accountability with heart, accountability that works, and accountability that is consistent with the core philosophy of the therapeutic work we do.'

OPEN

House, Richard

'The Inadvisability of Statutorily Regulating Psychotherapy and Counselling: Some Cautionary Notes'

 

Document submitted to Department of Health Foster Review of non-medical regulation, 2005

OPEN

House, Richard

For PNC and ATP!

 

Comments on the Psychotherapy and Counselling Reference Group Meeting, 29th March 2007, held at the BPS offices, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2

OPEN

House, Richard

The state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy: sometime, never?

 

'The institution exercises a form of seduction by comforting [us] with its common aims, absorbing [us] with the mechanisms of its orientation towards official roles, and tempting us to relinquish [our] own free, unique individualityx

OPEN

House, Richard

DECONSTRUCTION, POST- (?) -MODERNISM AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

 

Review of Ian Parker's Deconstructing Psychotherapy, Sage, London, 1999, 'Ian Parker has the enviable knack of producing leading-edge books which are significantly ahead of the therapy field in terms of their theoretical and practical prescience'.

OPEN

House, Richard

The statutory regulation of psychotherapy: still time to think again

This article first appeared in THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST, 17, 2001, pp. 12-17

 

OPEN

House, Richard -

Meeting to Present the Department of Health Report on the INITIAL MAPPING PROJECT FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING, Friday 18 November 2005

Meeting Report

 

OPEN

House, Richard Postle Denis

Presentation 'Deconstructing and Humanising the Regulatory Impulse: Directions for Mobilisation'

Presentation given at the College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March-1 April 2006

OPEN

Howard, Alex

- The place of psychotherapy and counselling in a healthy European social order:

further commentary on Digby Tantam and Emmy Van Deurzen’s proposals for the future roles for psychotherapy

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL

Ipnosis Quits June12th 2005

 

These last few months Ipnosis has been minded to quit taking an active interest in the politics of UK psychopractice. Why? A sense of disgust that bullying and institutional turf wars continue to be features of the psychopractice landscape. As though domination games are a clinical problem when clients suffer from them but tolerable from your professional institution

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL

 

The Pennys Dropped

 

'The Penny's Dropped', so read a large sign for Maestro plastic money in Liverpool Street station as Ipnosis travelled to the October 10th meeting of the psychotherapy and counselling Reference Group, an ad hoc collection of mainstream psychopractice organisations.

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL

Regulation Rumourtoids

February 2007

 

Ipnosis showed up at the February 17 Guild of Psychotherapists event, 'Facing up to State Regulation'. An intriguing title for a very informative event. The three main speakers, James Antrican, chair-elect of the UKCP, Sean Ellis of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy [AGIP], Chair of the AP-PP Section of the UKCP, and Diana Waller of the HPC, vividly personified the respective approaches of their organizations and the meeting/Guild chair, Paul Atkinson opened by stating the Guild's opposition to State Regulation.

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL

Roles Competencies and Complacency

 

- mapping the territory of psychotherapy and counselling with the Department of Health

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL

Rowing Away From State Regulation

 

A clutch of texts suggest that some psychopractice organisations might be distancing themselves from present regulation plans and the HPC in particular.

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL

Ipnosis EDITORIAL #1

 

This first edition of IPNOSIS arises at an interesting time for IPN. Five years on, we are growing steadily. Many of us have just about have recovered from the fear that kept us locked into the agendas of professionalisation.

OPEN

Ipnosis EDITORIAL -

 

An Historic Moment?

Letter to over a hundred stakeholder organizations, July 2006 from Professor Louis Appleby, Director of Mental Health UK,

He requests support from The Independent Practitioners Network [IPN] for Department of Health proposals for the regulation of counselling, psychotherapy (is psychoanalysis too hot a potato to handle?).

OPEN

Ipnosis video

Holding the Big Picture - Love Matters

 

- further reflections on the State regulation of the psychological therapies

VIDEO

 

Jenkins, Bob

Regulating the Psychological Therapies - from Taxonomy to Taxidermy by Denis Postle PCCS books 2007

 

Book Review

OPEN

Kalisch, David

The Statutory Regulation of Psychotherapy

 

OPEN

Karian, Previn

'Et tu Brute': Impossible Democracy at IPN's 2007 Conference

 

Article

OPEN

Layard, Richard

Psychological Therapies in the NHS Conference

 

Lord Layard talks about IAPT

OPEN

Leader, Dr Darien College of Psychoanalysts

 

Review of Skills for Health Psychological Therapies Consultation

 

Contains a valuable account of the essentials of a psychoanalytic process.

OPEN

Litten, Roger

Skills for Health

Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards

June 2008

Response from the Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom

 

OPEN

Litten, Roger

Outline for a talk at the

 

College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March-1 April 2006 ‘We are faced with a move towards the state regulation

Of what are called talking therapies in this country

The question is how to oppose it’

OPEN

Litten, Roger Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the UK

An Alarming Development

 

Commentary; The Health Professionals Council Road Map for the Statutory Regulation of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom

 OPEN

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton

Psychotherapy Bill 'Bombshell'

In this extract from Hansard January 19th 2001,

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton concludes his supporting remarks on the Psychotherapy Bill with news of the government's position on the regulation of psychotherapy and related trades.

OPEN

Low, Janet

Council for Health Regulatory Excellence [CHRE]

A report on the public meeting of the Board, held at 11 The Strand, London. 13 Feb 2008

OPEN

Low, Janet

The Man Behind Evidence Based Medicine - Archibald Leman Cochrane

An account of some of the antecedents of evidence-based medicine

OPEN

Low, Janet

Ideology and the NHS: the Perversion of Science, Practice, and Policy

 

An account of The Savoy Conference: The Psychological Therapies in the NHS Science, Practice and Policy, November 2007.

OPEN

Low, Janet

POWER, AUTHORITY and VALIDITY ?

The IAPT/CBT Nexus

eIpnosis Guest Editorial ‘Dr David Veale… draws attention to Andrew's human weakness and then calls on another large and powerful institution (NICE) as an ally against this one man.’

OPEN

Low, Janet

A Rally of the Impossible Professions - Beyond the False Promises of Security London September 2008

‘We stand in a moment of ever-increasing commodification and marketisation of public services… the impending regulation of the ‘psychological therapies’ threatens to impose a crushing standardization of the talking therapies including psychoanalysis in various forms’.

OPEN

Low, Janet

Psychological Therapies in the NHS Conference

The original Savoy Declaration.

The Savoy Declaration, Oct 12th 1658 is a confession of faith produced by the Congregational Churches in England and developed from the Westminster Confession of Faith that had been written a few years earlier. The main difference between the two documents is the inclusion of material which asserts the autonomy of local churches.

OPEN

Low, Janet

Unintended Consequences

Interview with Michael Power

OPEN

Low, Janet

Unintended Consequences

Interview with Marylyn Strathern

OPEN

Low, Janet

Unintended Consequences

Interview with Robert Snell OPEN

Low, Janet

Unintended Consequences

Interview with Mark Neocleous OPEN

Low, Janet

Unintended Consequences

Introduction to interview series

OPEN

Mead, Ros

Department of Health, letter to the UKCP

 

This letter rebukes UKCP for attempting to pre-emptively define psychotherapy competencies ahead of the DoH/Skills for Health consultation process. Ros Mead asked that it be displayed on the UKCP web-site.

OPEN

Mowbray, Richard

 

Foster review of regulation of non-medical health-care professions 10th November 2007

Submission

OPEN

Munthe, Axel

Accreditation Deja Vu - Quacks and Charlatans

 

A Swedish physician living in Paris in the 1880s records in his memoirs some of the scenes and events of medical practice at that time.

OPEN

Musgrave, Arthur IPN

Letter

to The BACP journal, Therapy Today

OPEN

Musgrave, Arthur IPN,

letter

to BACP from February 2007

about the Skills For Health Competencies Consultation

OPEN

Oakley, Chris -

PSYCHOANALYSIS and ITS SELF MUTILATION

 

Paper given by Chris Oakley at the College of Psychoanalysts International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March–1 April 2006

OPEN

Open Letter

OPEN LETTER TO THE UKCP ABOUT THE ICO

 

This open letter is currently signed by five UKCP Member Organisations (listed at the end of the letter), and is being circulated now to organisations working in different modalities with an invitation to add their signatures

OPEN

Owen, Nick

MORE GOLD INTO LEAD FURTHER OBSERVATIONS FROM THE ALCHEMISTS LAB. U.K. PSYCHOTHERAPY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 1990'S.

 

A response to Denis Postle May 1999

OPEN

Parker, Ian

WHY ANALYTIC PRACTITIONERS SHOULD SAY NO TO THE HPC

As it says, from a psychoanalytic perspective

OPEN

Parker, Ian

Resign from the UKCP

In invitation to current members of the UKCP to resign.

OPEN

Parker, Ian

UKCP AGM March 2008

An detailed account of the Match 2008 AGM of the UKCP

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Engineering Happiness: The Savoy Conference: The Psychological Therapies in the NHS Science, Practice and Policy, November 2007.

Review of seven recordings of the proceedings posted on the Internet by the British Psychoanalytic Council.

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Full Disclosure List

A detailed proposal for a civic accountability process that require full and open disclosure by practitioners

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Freeze Drying Love

As spring (2008) approaches, the glaciation of UK psychopractice gathers pace.

OPEN

Postle, Denis

The Ills of Alienation and the Industrialization of the Psychological Therapies

 

The roll out of Increasing Access to the Psychological Therapies [IAPT] reveals a picture of social mediation/social insanity on a grand scale.

OPEN

Postle, Denis

The Independent Practitioners Network [IPN] A Decade of Accountability with Heart and Engagement

 

 

‘IPN is a living demonstration of the form and process that ethically sound accountability might best take: face to face contact; peer and self-assessment within a peer-group context; responsibly ‘standing by’ others’ work on the basis of knowing them personally; congruence between the core values of therapy work, practitioners' working style, and IPN's network structure.’

OPEN

Postle, Denis

UKCP, BACP, BABCP and BPC - announce 'MOCK' Application for New Professions Membership of the HPC

Review of another historic moment in the process of matching the psychological therapies to the state’s interests.

 OPEN

Postle, Denis

Shrink-Wrapping Psychotherapy

 

This is the original, full length version of an article based on a talk given at the British Confederation of Psychotherapists Conference 'Statutory Regulation - for or against', June 1999.

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Shrinkwrapping Psychotherapy

 

a shortened, version of an article based on a talk given at the British Confederation of Psychotherapists Conference 'Statutory Regulation - for or against', June 1999. It appears in the British Journal of Psychotherapy, 16 (3) Spring 2000

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Psychopractice Services

 

An example of Full Disclosure List style client information

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Practitioner Full Disclosure List Proposal

January 2003

A detailed proposal for a civic accountability scheme complementary to HPC and DoH plans

OPEN

Postle, Denis

'Validity In the Psychological Therapies - Why Love Provides a Better Benchmark Than Science' 26 mins. Offers evidence of the narrowness of evidence-based practice and a challenge to others to reframe their work as research.

TEXT
OPEN

Postle, Denis

Love Matters.

 

It does indeed. Love enables the integration of psychology, politics, spirituality in our approach to life and work. And not least, I want to argue, therapy work

TEXT

VIDEO

Postle, Denis

UKCP's Love Affair with the State - The Second Decade - Science as Decoration

 

CRITICAL REVIEW of 'DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMPROVED REGULATION OF THE PROFESSION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY' UKCP submission to the Department of Health OCTOBER 2005

OPEN

Postle, Denis

Ipnosis contribution to Debate on statutory regulation of psychotherapy in 'The Psychotherapist', UKCP house magazine

 

OPEN

Postle, Denis

The UKCP is my Shepherd, We Shall Not Want...

 

CRITICAL REVIEW of The UKCP presentation by Heward Wilkinson at the 'Therapeutic Training after Freud' Conference, May 20 2006, at Roehampton University

OPEN

Postle, Denis

REGISTERING HUMAN NATURE

 

This short article accompanied a comprehensive review of the Psychotherapy Bill 1999 published in Self and Society January 2000

'Weary of the task of confronting the professionalisation of psycho-practice, I often remind myself that vigilance about how, and by whom, human nature is being defined, is always honourable and necessary.'

OPEN

Postle, Denis

The Alchemist's Nightmare:

Gold into Lead - the annexation of psychotherapy in the UK

 

‘… the debate about professionalisation of psychotherapy in the UK has seemed one-sided and unsound and the institutional outcomes oppressive and damaging. Is the attempted professionalisation of psychotherapy in the UK a rational, aware process - one that supports the needs of clients? Or is it an incoming tide of collective collusion in which a trade association consisting primarily of training schools and accrediting bodies seeks to colonise and dominate the field of psycho-practice?’

OPEN

Postle, Denis -

Regulating the Psychological Therapies - From Taxonomy to Taxidermy PCCS Books 2007

 

Contents

Foreword

Endorsements

Purchase

Postle, Denis eIpnosis

Ipnosis has lately been preoccupied with a series of indicators on the current state of play of proposals for the State Regulation of psychopractice in the UK.

Roles Analysis

Colonization of Psychopractice Territory, cont.

Psychopractice client harm - the evidence?

The Foster Review?

and other concerns from eIpnosis April 12 2006

OPEN

Richard House & Yvonne Bates Eds.,

Ethically Challenged Professions

Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling PCCS Books

Summary and contents

OPEN

Richardson, Anne

'Getting Fit For Regulation'

Anne Richardson, Deputy Head, Mental Health Services Branch, Department of Health

Article

OPEN

Richardson, Anne

'The Significance [of SR] for the United Kingdom - A View from the Department of Health'

 

 

Extracts from a transcript of the address by Ms Anne Richardson (Deputy Head, Mental Health Services Branch, Department of Health)

OPEN

Richardson, Anne DoH,

Presentation on 'Statutory Regulation of Psychotherapy and Counselling: The Way Forward', given to IPN London Gathering 13th October 2001

Selected Quotations

OPEN

Riley, Wendy

The way I see it - Consultant appraisal is trying to achieve too much

 

Commentary by Development officer, Department of Education and Professional Development, University College London, London

OPEN

Rogers, Andy

 

Letter #1

to The BACP journal Therapy Today December 2005

OPEN

Rogers, Andy

 

Letter #2

to The BACP journal Therapy Today

OPEN

Samuels, Andrew Veale, David

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Increasing Access to the Psychological Therapies -

 

Press letters and Correspondence between Dr David Veale, President of BABCP and Professor Andrew Samuels, UKCP November 2007

OPEN

Santacatterina, Mauro

1989-2005: Psychoanalysis against itself

 

Paper given by Mauro Santacatterina at the College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March–1 April 2006

OPEN

Totton, Nick, et al

Petition - It's not to late to halt State regulation We the undersigned psychotherapists and counsellors doubt that the proposed state regulation of psychotherapy and counselling in the UK will be of benefit either to the public or to the profession... and call upon the Government and the leadership of our professions to halt the process and think again. OPEN

Totton, Nick

The Baby and the Bathwater

 

An account of the prospects for the 'professionalisation' in psychotherapy and counselling

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UKCP/BACP

Mapping Research - Brief Review and selected quotes

 

‘Published in mid November 2005, but note the date on the file '30-06-5', five months after it was delivered to the Department of Health, the interim mapping project weighs in at an onerous 82 pages…’

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Ward, Simon

False Compliance

 letter - 'training to do therapy under the radar'

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Whan, Michael

Therapy as an institutional neurosis: or, compounding the estrangement between soul and world

 

Article from a member of The Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists

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Wilkinson, Heward

The UKCP is my Shepherd, We Shall Not Want...

 

Response to eIpnosis article from Heward Wilkinson

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