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FEATURE ARTICLE
Troubled Times
In A Paperweight Palatinate
Wesley Tantrum reports from the UKCP Court, Buxton, March 2008
THE MISSING REGISTRANTS AND A COURT JESTER
As any good guerrilla knows to confront power one must find a point of leverage. When Wesley showed up at the UKCP's 3 day AGM 2008 on day 2 which had been designated as "Registrants Day" that leverage was quickly evident. As the so-called delegates drifted into the cavernous weddingcake ballroom within the grandeur of The Palace Hotel, Buxton, there was barely a humble registrant to be seen. The figure Wesley was given was 4 out of 130 or so bods visible.
Delegates properly speaking are persons subject to right of recall by a broader constituency such as the mass of registrants that would not attend an event in person. Let's demystify. Delegates to Buxton meant representatives of the trainers club, the 80 plus training institutes that along with a few 'special' and 'institutional' members form the cartel that runs this dominator organisation. Therefore Wesley's invitation card was not sent to him in person (though they do have his address) it had to be forwarded on from his member organisation which anomalously but significantly has no training agenda, only an accrediting brief. The unspoken here is know your place in the hierarchical order. Thus in this political hall of mirrors Wesley was a "delegate" who was not a delegate who took it on himself to represent viewpoints from the "disenfranchised" registrants who the day was allegedly for but who were almost totally absent. More | Download .rtf
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Finding a voice with which to contribute to the present debate about the State Regulation is a key task for psycho- practitoners in these critical months, eIpnosis would argue.
This edition of eIpnosis contributes introduces three such voices: two texts and three videos from UKCP registrant, and IPN participant, Guy Gladstone, and three videos and associated texts from Psychoanalyst, Janet Low.
They either directly confront, or fill out some of the background to the Huge Mistake that SR promises to be. For dessert there is a poem read by Tony Donaghy
See the Psycholodeon Page for access details
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eIpnosis is edited, maintained and © Denis Postle 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Other recent and current eIpnosis preoccupations include:
- UKCP March AGM report by Ian Parker, CFAR
- Submission to the recent BPS consultation Guy Gladstone
- Attempts to freeze-dry love continue eIpnosis EDITORIAL February 26 more
- Reference Group Membership list,and 'Project Infrastructure' for the Skills for Health (a subsection of Skills for Business) task of writing National Occupational Standards [NOS] for the Psychological Therapies.
Guess who heads the list... Lord John Alderdice... representing, apparently, the House of Lords.
- Consultation (now closed) on the State Regulation of Psychologists 21 December - 22 March. EDITORIAL, REVIEW and CONSULTATION DOCUMENT DOWNLOADS
- Health Professions Council Special #3 eIpnosis reports on iatrogenic damage due to the HPC's impermeability and unfitness for purpose.
- The Health Professions Council voted 13th December to 'consider the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists'. Minutes | Details
- An Alarming Development The Health Professionals Council Road Map for the Statutory Regulation of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom
Roger Litten - Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the UK
- UKCP, BACP, BABCP and BPS - announce 'MOCK' Application for New Professions Membership of the HPC
- REPORT: The Savoy Conference: The NHS and the Psychological Therapies
REVIEW: Engineering Happiness - Internet online recordings of The Savoy Conference, includes links and excerpted transcripts
COMMENT: Ideology and the NHS: the perversion of Science, Practice, and Policy
The Old Savoy Declaration
The New Savoy Declaration Revision 1.01
Start the day with a smile! The Sav**oy Declaration VIDEO
- Recent press criticism of the IAPT/CBT nexus by Professor Andrew Samuels and an extensive response from the BABCP. Ipnosis features the correspondence, an Editorial, a Guest Editorial from Janet Low and a link to Andrew Samuels collection of CBT Articles and Documents.
- The first formal meeting, on 17th November, between BACP and UKCP plus we guess BABCP, with the Health Professions Council. First steps on the slippery slope to creative and ethical malnutrition?
For newcomers, the evolution of the psychological therapies chronicled in these pages may seem a welcome endorsement of your career choice.
You are mistaken.
State regulation is on the way to being a Huge Mistake. With a toxicity that is now beginning to unfold.
The precious delights and unfoldings of personal development, not as a pre-requisite for a job, or symptom management, but for its own sake, are being over-run by business plans for an industrialization that exploits the innovations and discoveries of the last 50 years.
This marketized, medicalized, academicized, bureaucratized, scientized, edifice continues to evoke in eIpnosis stirrings of the subjectivity that it is designed to domesticate. Today - feelings of sadness bordering on disgust.
These echo a long-standing, deep disappointment that the psychological therapies could be so unaware, so ignorant, of the political dimensions of psychopractice, as to fail to notice that the embrace of the state would be poisonous.
An historic, and tragic, moment.
The current and recent events we report in these pages reinforce our perspective (see the Ipnosis videos Love Matters* and Love Works) that the regulationist's technocratic blather about psychopractice 'standards' and 'fitness to practise' is deficient in a critical, over-arching way. It doesn't anywhere include love, love being defined as seeking the flourishing of the Other, coupled necessarily with the absence of coercion and manipulation.
As an antidote to the content of the Regulation News and Views pages, the Love Matters pages continue to build and attract pointers to how human condition work can be manifest in ways that honour what we know as therapists about the human condition, flourishing and jouissance.
As before the Archive pages will contain everything that has gone before on eIpnosis and there is a comprehensive Contents Page.
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