All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie
W.H. Auden

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Men and Birth: video

Decemnber 15 2008 | LEGAL | IPN | CONTACT | HOME | CONTENTS | REGULATION | LOVE MATTERS | MULTIMEDIA | HPCWATCHDOG
eIpnosis continues to be the only independent source for information about the imposition of a tickbox culture of state regulation on the psychological therapies
- around 200k words of easily accessible current and recent intelligence about this notably unintelligent and values incongruent move.

A caveat if you are new to eIpnosis. Yes it is overwhelmingly critical of the Huge Mistake of state regulation and the institutions that promote it. Keep in mind this is a critique that can be made and sustained because of 13 years of positive programme, the Independent Practitioners Network [IPN].

Building on this lived experience, eIpnosis argues for values-congruent civic accountability. Take a look at Love Matters, Love Works, and Validity In the Psychological Therapies - Why Love Provides a Better Benchmark Than Science.
PsycholOdeon
eIpnosis MULTIMEDIA
18 videos and sound tracks

Protecting the Client Experience
A Catastrophe Theory Map of Civic Accountability in the Psychological Therapies
Denis Postle


The inaugural meeting of the Health Professions Council Professional Liaison Group for Counselling and Psychotherapy Regulation. December 4 2008
Administering the Kiss of Death - A Vichy Moment
eIpnosis REPORT


Health Professions Council Sheds New Light on Symptom Removal —
Ignoring Dissent Creates Assent
Documents which the HPC's Professional Liaison Group [PLG] had in front of them at their inaugural meeting on December 4 2008 eIpnosis REVIEW


The Interminable Terminological Confusion of Statutory and State Regulation
Regulator and regulated have recently rediscovered 'statutory' as a smokescreen for their confluence with state control.
Guy Gladstone


Messages from Taxonomist Heaven
An account, with detailed Freedom of Information Act evidence, of scandalous ethical distortion and values incongruence in the Skills for Health National Occupational Standards [NOS] for Counselling and Psychotherapy development process
eIpnosis REVIEW


The UKCP and Tick Box Regulation – an Arranged Marriage.
UKCP Conference: Transforming Times - UKCP at the Heart of the Profession and the Wider World of the 21st Century? November 15 2008
A valiant if flawed attempt by the UKCP to breathe life into a profession facing capture and dissolution
eIpnosis conference report


Counselling in Primary Care - Make-over mania?
eIpnosis in conversation with a Primary Care counsellor
'....The new proposals are actually getting rid of the term 'counsellor' and people are to be called 'psychological therapists' and what we understand, and certainly what has happened in other areas, is that existing counsellors have been required to undergo further training, sometimes one day a week, in a university for a year in CBT, no matter how experienced they may be or no matter how well trained they may be...'
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Validity In the Psychological Therapies - Why Love Provides a Better Benchmark Than Science eIpnosis video 26 mins. Video | DVD £5 post free .

Autumn Special from Wesley Tantrum
As the state prepares to administer its kiss of death to the psy field, psy folk are occupying one or other of three positions. These positions are most readily grasped ornithologically:
VULTURES
are getting ready for the pickings
OSTRICHES are keeping their heads down/in the sand
ROOSTERS are telling everyone to wake up
And there are three further species, though one is extinct. Read on

Towards Post-professional Practice: Principled Non-Compliant Practitionership in a Post-Regulation Era
by Richard House
'...to what extent can we preserve a radical countercultural space in a psychotherapy field which becomes increasingly professionalised and subject to the audit culture’s worst excesses?' more
Interview with counsellor Rose Budd,
eIpnosis 'Fitness to Practise Consultant' Charles Layton tries to give voice to the passive majority of practitioners who appear to be aquiescing in the introduction of SR. more

Troubled Times In A Paperweight Palatinate
Wesley Tantrum reports from the UKCP Court, Buxton, March 2008

Overview of what SR entails and outline of what is at stake
- Economics - Zeitgeist - Responsibilities - and Contradictions & Anomalies - . more

Tim Brown sends this one page account of why SR is problematic to people who quiz him about it. more

Response to Skills for Health Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards, Roger Litten, Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom June 2008


'We have had enough...' RESIGNATION FROM THE UKCP Join the list of practitioners across all modalities who have decided to resign, or intend to resign from their UKCP registration.

Why Analytic Practitioners Should Say No To The HPC by Ian Parker, CFAR

Skills for Health Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards - A Response from The Psychoanalytic Consortium

STOP SR List of 360+ practitioners who reject present plans for state regulation of the psychological therapies. The list is still open, sign up.
Its not too late to halt state regulation - petition 1200+ signatures - sign up

Soul Women Natalie Brooks on how 'for the passionate woman politics is dull, dry and devoid of soul'.

UKCP March AGM report by Ian Parker, CFAR

Submission to the recent BPS consultation
Guy Gladstone

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

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

Client Voices


bringbackourjoy
A mother tells of the downside of HPC Regulation
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust Userwatch
An Independent Occasionally Very Satired (And Even Wicked Yes Wicked) View Of Mental Health NHS Issues As Well As Those Further Afield
PSYCHOFRAUD
Revealing the Truth About Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Counselling and CBT

Writhe Safely
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. ~ Tagore
'health care... capitalism's crowning clusterfuck'.


HPCWatchDog
The Health Professions Council Regulatory Process Under Scrutiny - Janet Low

Report from a public hearing of the 'fitness to practice' panel 5 November 2008,
by Janet Low
"...At this point Mr U snapped out of his quiet fatigue and in a very animated and focussed way instructed me to work very hard right now to avoid ever being taken into the HPC."
Part One |
Part Two

Health Professions Council
Call for Ideas
An archive of fourteen individual and institutional responses

Health Professions Council select Professional Liaison Group [PLG]
List of members

Unintended Consequences
a series of interviews produced by eIpnosis associate editor Psychoanalyst Janet Low, plus a related Blog


Health Professions Council
eIpnosis meets Marc Seale, The Regulator
At the end of August 2008 eIpnosis received a pair of messages that offered very contradictory views on the HPC's reputation. I emailed extracts of them to Marc Seale, his response was to invite me in for a meeting.
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Details of a meeting, with HPC's Mark Seale and the College of Psychoanalysts (Darian Leader and Jacques China) are here

Notes of a meeting with HPC's Mark Seale and Arthur Musgrave, Andrew Samuels and Nick Totton here


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 2008 to 'consider the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists'. Minutes | Details

Skills for Health and National Occupational Standards for Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy
by Arthur Musgrave

As a humanistic therapist I'm not well placed to comment in detail on National Occupational Standards for Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapies. I did, however, become quite involved in the drafting of the precursors to NOS, National Vocational Qualifications [NVQs], back in the mid 1990s. There are some useful parallels. more


The State Regulation Train is Leaving the station... or is the Station Leaving the Train?
report on the June 10 2008 Psychological Therapies Reference Group meeting

State Regulation: Illusory, Unethical and Hazardous - Eleven Good reasons to To Oppose SR
Guy Gladstone

Attempts to freeze-dry love continue
eIpnosis EDITORIAL February 26 2008 more

House of Lords 5 February 2007 Lord Alderdice, later to be chair of two key Skills for Health Reference Groups, on why the Health Professions Council isn't 'fit for purpose'. '...Why this dissatisfaction with the HPC? The membership of the HPC is primarily concerned with those who treat physical illnesses, and the way that they deal with training and skills is much less variable...' more

The Health Professions Council voted 13th December 2008 to

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


IAPT/CBT nexus
Read 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.
'consider the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists'. Minutes | Details

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